“There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks.”

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    Heh when I was a teenager my dad bought a Datsun 260Z as a project car. It was a rusted out shell of a chassis/squirrel den and drivetrain when we got it.

    I remember taking turns trying to unstick the crankshaft, by hand with a bigass breaker-bar with the head loaded up with MMO. And the feeling of success when red goo shot out the cylinders like a satanic bukkake scene when we finally got it unstuck.

    We ended up getting it road-worthy, though I don’t think he ever let me drive it. I was too tall to really drive it comfortably anyway, especially once he put the RSX seats in. Still, I learned a lot about cars and French while we worked on it.

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      8 days ago

      Because it’s your dad I’m assuming French language and not French kissing because ew.

      Also i am a few frescas decades deep but I think ours was a 280z. Think. It was the car dad wanted to use to pick up chicks but only the coquerelles were interested