Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 11/13/2019 at 08:38 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Matthew Wilson, aged 78 and the o riginal owner of this 1927 Packard, affixes new stickers to his license plate i n 1953, 26 years after he bought the car .

Looks like it might have the original tires, too......

Nibby > ttyymmnn 11/13/2019 at 08:52

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oof those tires don’t look so hot

but i’m sure they have new life on some 1995 truck

CB > ttyymmnn 11/13/2019 at 08:54

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Homemade drag slicks.

duurtlang > ttyymmnn 11/13/2019 at 09:01

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I imagine 26 years was a very long time for a car back then. Nowadays, meh. The average age of my cars is higher and I’d take both on a very long international road trip without a second thought.

ttyymmnn > duurtlang 11/13/2019 at 09:05

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My Golf was 17 years old when a drunk totaled it, my current Odyssey is 16 years  old. I like to keep my cars. I know what they are capable of and I know their quirks. 

duurtlang > ttyymmnn 11/13/2019 at 09:27

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My Peugeots are 32 and 19 years old so I guess I lied slightly when I said the average age of my cars is higher than 26. Anyway, I’ve owned the 19 year old one since 2012 . Bought it at 167k km, it’s at 356k now... It’s economically worthless given age and kms , but I know what I have and I like it. Keeping it reliable has been cheap so far, so no reason to go overly cheap in maintaining it.

I bought the 32 year old one in 2015. That is a restored classic (now) though .

ttyymmnn > duurtlang 11/13/2019 at 09:56

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It’s economically worthless given age and kms, but I know what I have and I like it.

When my Golf was totaled, I had a discussion with my oldest son about the difference between worth and value.

ranwhenparked > duurtlang 11/13/2019 at 10:33

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Remember the I Love Lucy episode where Fred's in charge of buying a car for their road trip to California? They know he's coming home in a used Cadillac convertible and see one coming, Ricky hopes that isn't it because it has to be 5 or 6 years old and would never make it all the way to California. The one Fred actually buys is from the 1920s, and they treat it like an archaic museum piece despite being only about 30 years old or so.

fintail > ttyymmnn 11/13/2019 at 11:18

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5 passenger Club Sedan on disc wheels, quite a handsome car in its day.

Cars definitely age better now than then, most pre-1930 cars were long gone by 1940.