Post #1388605
2026-04-17 20:53 UTC
@peterbrown @babe
Classic cars are museum pieces - increasingly as technology leaves them behind - and it is good that some people are prepared to put in the effort to preserve them.
I don’t know if I’d put it quite that way. Technology leaves behind modern cars much, much more rapidly than old cars. Getting controller parts for a ten year old car depends heavily on the popularity of that car. Getting controller parts for a 45 year old car, like mine, is meaningless because the car has no controllers, aside from an analog glow plug controller, which I can diagnose and fix if it ever has trouble.
My car is 100% obsolescence proof when it comes to anything related to technology. Newer cars simply aren’t.
Replies (3)
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@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk 2026-04-17 21:02
@AnachronistJohn @peterbrown Mine's 15 now and the electronics in it are so bloody complicated I just can't do anything with them. Like now with getting a new indicator installed, the multiplex system means it just can't be DIY'd easily Compared to doing similar in an '92 MR2 where it just needed a wire. It's a nightmare.
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@lopta@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 22:57
@AnachronistJohn @babe @peterbrown I hate having to buy a new car. Guess where I am going now. :-(
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@furicle@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 00:25
@AnachronistJohn @babe @peterbrown until you need a ball joint, or a pitman arm. You just can't economically keep anything running for ever