Smart car crushed

[Bob Dog]

I had 2, one a 72 camper deluxe, ane an 85 custom deluxe 20. Just the thin for towing a trailer full of gravel, You could stack green hardwood firewood on the back higher than the top of the cab and the springs would not go down. Shifting the darn thing was like driving a nail with a sledgehammer and it had about the same turning ratio as a big Jhn Deere pulling a 3 bladed plow. Still the clumsy old beasts would go 300,000 miles with nothing but spark plugs and brake pads if you changed the oil and lubed them. My first on had 335,000 on it when it finally succumbed to rust and a worn out syncronizer. I drove the second one for 18 years and sold it for parts when it had a leaking radiator, worn out ball joints. a bad master cylinder, a shot carburator, a block that was consuming a quart of oil every hundred miles, and rust that had been repaired and come back twice. It was really hard work driving those monsters.I much prefer tthe economy and handling characteristics of a well engineered japanese 4cylinder.
Sure have rambled off topic haven't we?