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<blockquote data-quote="cas" data-source="post: 429991" data-attributes="member: 19210"><p>Yes, when pickup trucks were about the cheapest thing you could purchase. They were made for work and no one else bought them. Now they're ridiculous monstrosities. Working stiffs who actually need them can't actually buy them.</p><p></p><p>As for different coolant, ATF was a whole heck of a lot simpler too. </p><p></p><p></p><p>As for the engines themselves, I think about my '56 Chevy under the hood and how simple, clean and uncluttered it was. It had upper/lower radiator and heater hoses obviously. A rubber fuel line from the fuel pump and ONE vacuum hose for the spark advance. "Modern" cars (and I use the term <em>modern</em> extremely loosely) have miles of hoses going here there and everywhere. Actually true modern cars have fewer hoses and tubes than many generations of automobiles)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cas, post: 429991, member: 19210"] Yes, when pickup trucks were about the cheapest thing you could purchase. They were made for work and no one else bought them. Now they're ridiculous monstrosities. Working stiffs who actually need them can't actually buy them. As for different coolant, ATF was a whole heck of a lot simpler too. As for the engines themselves, I think about my '56 Chevy under the hood and how simple, clean and uncluttered it was. It had upper/lower radiator and heater hoses obviously. A rubber fuel line from the fuel pump and ONE vacuum hose for the spark advance. "Modern" cars (and I use the term [I]modern[/I] extremely loosely) have miles of hoses going here there and everywhere. Actually true modern cars have fewer hoses and tubes than many generations of automobiles) [/QUOTE]
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