I'm going to tell you women why old cars

Since so many of you ask, there's a reason why I'm fixed on old cars besides my upper middle aged crusty ass ok? Number one today's modern pieces of shit will be in the wrecker before an old car with twice as many miles
Secondly, there's no comfortable modern car. 3rd, and of course most of you women won't understand this, I'm not rich, nor am I stupid enough to make payments on some modern car with no class.
4th, unlike a lot of y'all, I don't follow trends.
Know your engines. 3.8 liter will outlast a 3.6 3 times over. Modern cars are only built for looks and convenience, not longevity and reliability.
5th, modern cars are overpriced 3-4 times over.
6th, metallurgy. Look in to it.

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kodiac · 22-25, M

This is a 70 year old chevy truck ,there isn't a vehicle made today that will last 70 years.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@kodiac No reason why not, but only if looked after or rescued from some barn.

My sister owns what had been our father's Commer caravanette, and that is probably sixty years old. It lasted only because it had been stored unused for many years, after he became too ill to drive it. Though stored in a garage it still cost her a lot of money to put back on the road - it needed all-new fuel tank, battery, hydraulics and tyres, and I think a re-spray.

Similary that Chevrolet has not looked like that since new. It has obviously been restored, very nicely, and recently- and from a rusty wreck?

Seventy years ago.... Most of that car's contemporaries of all makes would have been worn-out beyond economic repair, even obsolescent, so scrapped; mainly in the 1960s - 70s. Some might have staggered on into the 1980s. Very, very few are still running now.

Cars are not designed to last for more than two or three decades. Even massive things like ships last only 20 or 30 years. They never were.

Very few survive. Some of the most expensive, highest-quality luxury cars do by careful use and continual servicing. Others had been been locked in some shed for years until rescued and restored. None survive for 50+ years by manufacturer's intent. They were not built to do so.

Commercial vehicles, including builders' pick-ups like that Chevrolet, are designed for even shorter lives in years. They are designed to cover very high mileages or hours of hard work in a short time. That was so even before the i.c.-engine. I have reprints of "owner's manuals" for traction-engines built in the early-1900s. They estimated write-down ages of just ten years - for relatively simple utility vehicles built from massive steel plate and iron castings.

Your Chevrolet was not built to last seven decades.

It is just lucky to be still alive!

The most likely problem facing any internal-engined vehicle in 70 years from now, whether 2026-built or (like that Chevy) already preserved vintage, will be availability of consumables - especially fuel, lubricating oils, suitable batteries and tyres - spares, and the skills to service such machines.