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[#] Mon May 14 2018 19:58:53 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Wait ... are you single again?

[#] Tue May 15 2018 09:33:11 EDT from pandora

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Well, living on my own, and have been dating this one dude since september, but I left my second husband in 2013.

[#] Fri May 18 2018 09:52:50 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Nostalgic for the days when cars had carburetors but most of us hadn't been born yet?  :)



[#] Fri May 18 2018 10:59:23 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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As much as I love carburetors (and still own cars that have them!) they're simple not as good as modern fuel injection.

[#] Fri May 18 2018 11:04:12 EDT from pandora

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Ig, we had been born, and something about the smell brings me back to sitting "on the hump" in my dad's caddy.

[#] Fri May 18 2018 11:05:17 EDT from pandora

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Just to doublecheck myself, fuel injected cars weren't a thing until the 80's

[#] Fri May 18 2018 11:24:12 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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First gasoline mechanical fuel injection was introduced in 1952.

[#] Fri May 18 2018 11:26:47 EDT from pandora

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I thought fuel injected was invented in the 1940s, but not used in automobiles until the 1980s?

[#] Fri May 18 2018 11:34:03 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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Actually much, much earlier in diesels.

[#] Fri May 18 2018 12:54:54 EDT from pandora

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how many of us/our parents drove diesel cars?

[#] Fri May 18 2018 13:20:11 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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My father owned a 1979 Mercedes-Benz 300D, which he bought used in 1983. If we're talking about nostalgia for the way a car smelled when it was running ... those had a bouquet all their own :)

[#] Fri May 18 2018 13:43:23 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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Nearly indestructable.

[#] Fri May 18 2018 16:12:36 EDT from LoanShark <>

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2018-05-18 11:24 from Ragnar Danneskjold
First gasoline mechanical fuel injection was introduced in 1952.

true but even mercedes-benz was selling carbureted cars as a lower trim level until the 80s. for example the 190/190E - the E in 190E stood for the german for fuel-injection (whatever that is)

[#] Mon May 21 2018 08:13:22 EDT from fleeb <>

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I had a diesel beetle for 12 years. Not a bad car, honestly. Got rid of it when it started to nickle-n-dime me, as is inevitable.

[#] Fri May 25 2018 06:53:56 EDT from zooer

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The Batmobile, Starsky and Hutch's Ford Torino, the General Lee along with several other TV cars burned when the truck carrying them caught fire. 

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/05/24/truck-carrying-batmobile-and-general-lee-wrecked-in-massive-blaze.html



[#] Fri May 25 2018 09:38:24 EDT from wizard of aahz

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Hmmm.. Looks like someone was trying to do an Uncensored Welcome./

[#] Fri Jun 01 2018 13:01:29 EDT from pandora

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After 4 years, I'm back on track to impoving the Falcon, and not just fixing broken shit.

[#] Mon Jun 04 2018 14:02:09 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

Or maybe just ... pics please. Let's see this fun project car.

[#] Wed Jun 20 2018 09:18:30 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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for example the 190/190E - the E in 190E stood for the german for fuel-injection (whatever that is)

The fish says it's "Einspritzdüse"

fleeb, how did you find the availability of diesel in the US when you owned the Beetle?  Was it a nuisance to find or was it readily available?



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