problem is some people think they are doing things right. its because they don't know any better. it scares the hell out of me when i see certain cars at cruises. to think that garbage is on the same road as my family scares the hell out of me. have you seen what some guys do with their brake systems? every state should make these old cars o through a safety check. they really need to be gone over from top top bottom...
i have a few friends into the rat rod scene. those guys (in this area anyway) are the worst. one guy had a dragging read brake for god knows how long. one day on a 2 hour trip the damn thing got so hot that it burned his car to the ground. why? because after buying a car that had sat for god knows how long he didn't go over the car to see if it was safe. it was too cool to have it all vintage. well he paid for that decision. hopefully he learned from it.
another guy that runs in that scene almost got his girlfriend killed because his brakes pulled to one side when he would hit the brake, never bothered to fix the damn thing. it was never a problem because he would slow down slowly and never had to hit the brake hard. then one day someone pulled out in front of him and he had to stand on the brakes. the wheel was ripped out of his hand, (horn ring when through his arm) the car made a 90* turn, ejected his girlfriend into the middle of the street and smashed into a pole totaling the car. he was lucky that no one was hurt bad. stitches in his arm, cuts and bruises for the rest of the people. again it could have been avoided with some simple and cheap routine maintenance...
guys think they are saving money by not replacing this stuff. its no joke! you can kill someone with this way of thinking. if the car has to sit an extra month then let it. its just not worth getting hurt over..
