>There's a picture of one here: >http://members.tripod.com/cruzzencarz78/bigcar/37ChC.htm >1937 Chevrolet Coupe
Well, exactly, I mean just taking a quick look at it, it has *style* man. I missed that entire era, but as I was saying, I think some of the SUV thing is a return to a sort of hold-on-a-second we don't need to drive amoeba-shaped vehicles around just to cheat the wind philosophy. I think older cars fare better in certain climates. In upstate NY, where I'm from, we had some salting of the roads in winters and I think this would contribute to shortening the lifetime of vehicles. Now that I'm in So-Cal (not that much longer) the first day I was here I could see that there seemed to be some really cool-looking old cars around. I think there was some pride-of-ownership to certain neighborhoods, but there was also the more benign overall climate. Yes, there's salt from the sea, but on balance cars seem to fare somewhat better here (people too? an interesting scientific question) As to planned obsolescence that you mention, it's a nasty thing and the sort of thing I can't mention without thinking I'm being paranoid, but I do believe they practice it. I think engines could be made to last longer, if they spent more. I also think it's a point in favor of EVs, in that with fewer moving parts perhaps they'd last a very long time (with every-once-in-awhile battery pack replacements). But on the general topic of SUVs, I want to reitterate that if we take a hard look at the attitudes of many of the activists, some of us are just not as dead-set against them for the simplistic reasons sometimes offered. I'm not a fan precisely in the sense that it does strike me as odd to take a 5 mile drive to the market in a giant behemoth vehicle, and there are myriad safety issues in sharing the roads with smaller vehicles (heck, why don't we all just drive tanks to work?) but they seem to have their role and for my money, I suppose a Jeep Cherokee looks better than an old station wagon. The last major-manufacturer EV offered in California.... very popular with the few able to get it.. until recently cancelled was a small SUV by the way. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
