You seem to be looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. I owned and drove cars made in the '60s and '70s. Compared to modern cars the quality was ter

You seem to be looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. I owned and drove cars made in the '60s and '70s. Compared to modern cars the quality was terrible in every way. The only advantage over today's cars is they were simpler and thus easier to fix. And that was a good thing, too, since you were going to be fixing them. In those days you were lucky to get 80k miles on an engine before it needed a rebuild, while it's not hard to find post-2000 cars with over 250k miles on the original, un-rebuilt engine.