I think your right, but id bet he won't himself be under that car changing a clutch,,,,, I guess im just being a old man, raised in a time you destroyed your own stuff you fixed your own stuffI may be wrong, he sure revved it to the moon, but i dont think that was an engine explosion. I think that was metal to metal nonexistant clutch disc.
I think the same way, when I was in high school, there were a couple of kids whose parents were well off, but most of us had a working class upbringing and we valued our cars and other things because we understood the sacrifice of having to work for something. Most of the kids I went to school with had a part time job and paid for what they wanted or needed. The few whose parents gave them everything were easy to spot, their cars were newer and/or nicer than the junk we drove, and they were always asking for help with the smallest of problems. They were also of course the same ones that crashed or blew up their cars, simply because they had no investment in it, neither in cash or what I called sweat equity. Mom and dad would just buy another one or pay for the repairs.I think your right, but id bet he won't himself be under that car changing a clutch,,,,, I guess im just being a old man, raised in a time you destroyed your own stuff you fixed your own stuff
maybe im wrong but `dam that engine was screaming, us guys that did our own wrenching and paid for our own stuff, knew the value
, no real heat
My sister had a 74 beetle with the gas heater, and I drove one in my first "real" job delivering pizza when I was 16. The heaters worked ok, sometimes, but yes gas mileage was very poor, and it was always a bit odd seeing exhaust coming out of the front wheel well of a beetle.LOLOL. One more reason not to own a beetle. Used to be a couple folks I knew from my home town had gasoline fired heaters in their veeeeee-dubs. Wonder what THAT does to mileage?