re: #229 RogueOne

Manufacturing processes back then couldn’t help but make things that lasted forever because they didn’t have the ability to make lightweight cheaper materials. If Ford would have had the ability to manufacture lightweight components they would have. Our grandparents weren’t brilliant, they just didn’t have any other options.

The “good ol’ days” are a myth.

Indeed. If Henry Ford could have found a way to squeeze plastic body panels and honeycomb aluminum into his early cars, you can be damned sure he would have.

I’m currently snooping about for a good old mercedes diesel with the old-fashioned steel and iron engine block.

There’s a reason those things run forever - the materials and processes they used were state of the art and were the best and cheapest way to get the job done. You’d be a maniac to build an engine like that now, as there’d be no need to, and the cost would be prohibitive.