Edenthiel wrote:
@auntblabby 'does anybody else here like cushy-smooth-riding and quiet cars?'
I learned to drive when I was 15 in a '76 LTD wagon that weighed well over 4800 lbs (2132 kg) and was 18.8 feet (5348 m) long. For the next decade my folks preferred the Lincoln Mark series. I once took the Mk V up to 100mph (161 kmph) on the Richmond - San Rafael bridge as it was well known by teens that the CHiP turned around at both sides without going over. I couldn't even feel the expansion joints, much less the uneven paving. In any other car, it would've felt like off-roading. I finally had my "own" car when I got the family's '78 LTD sedan after my sister finished with it. Almost the same length, weight was down to under 4000 lbs but this one came with a 400 ci engine. That was the year I discovered understeer & oversteer. Then I rebelled. First I bought a cute VW Bug, then a cuter Rabbit and finally a super cute, red MG Midget that I miss to this day*. The Midget would've fit on the front hood (bonnet) of the last of my folk's land yachts, a Lincoln Mark VI 4-door. From time to time I too miss those big, heavy, powerful, smooth-as-silk-ride vehicles. *except I hated it too, as I was poor and had to learn to fix it on the weekends to be able to drive it during the week to get to school and work. I can proudly say though, that I've rebuilt three transmissions all by my onesie, swapped clutches & can fine tune SU carbs in five minutes. Then again, that was a long, long time & a different life ago.
wow
you're my new techy hero
my cat has more mechanical skills than I do.
btw, I found the 70s era rabbits rode better than many luxury cars, the '79 [American-made for the American market] I drove swallowed most bumps without me feeling them, and still handled well. I found later models were far firmer-riding.