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especially with older cars . would love to revive cars from 60s-80s
by seydor 5mo ago
especially with older cars . would love to revive cars from 60s-80s
- jjtheblunt 5mo agoThese guys do just that. used to live walking distance, awesome stuff. https://evwest.com https://evwest.com
- dylan604 5mo agoI love the look of old cars, but there's a lot of modern safety advances sacrificed with driving around in a classic. Obvious would be modern seat belts and air bags. Less obvious are crumple zones. There's plenty of other things I'm sure that have been added in modern cars. A modern EV with the body of a 1969 Corvette Stingray or 1969 Camaro would be amazing. I'm talking modern interior materials for sound dampening and comfort like updated ACs not modern touch screen nonsense.
- cbdevidal 5mo agoI agree. Love older cars in the way they look, but I consider them only a little safer than a motorcycle. And plenty of people drive motorcycles and old cars every day without incident. Just from a percentage basis it’s not as safe.
- dylan604 5mo agoThe safety features of modern cars are more like an insurance policy where you don't think about it until you actually need it. I replaced a 2007 Corolla with a 2015 one where after just a few months of owning the car I was in a t-bone accident on the driver side. The 2015 had side impact curtains that really saved me that I cannot imagine what would have happened in the 2007 model. I walked away from that with just a couple of scrapes. The plenty of people comment also reminds me of the sayings about airliners. It's not that there's a lot of accidents, but when they do happen, there tends to be higher percentage of fatalities.