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Default Try this in today's cars.

Hank© wrote:
On 9/26/2013 9:26 AM, John H wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/nq2jY1trxqg?rel=0


And just think, we sold that car company to the Italians.


How many rebuilds during the making of the advert? My dad ran a wrecking
yard in Nebraska in the 1930's. I commented one time about a model T
seemed to keep running. He said, they never went more than 25,000 miles in
a lifetime. You always kept a strip of leather in the toolbox to replace a
poured Babbitt bearing when it went out any old time. If you did not have
the leather, you could use a piece of your belt or the tongue for a shoe.
They turned over all the time. Heavy metal, the did not bend, but the
passengers did. They were better than horses, but not by much.