Differences between driving in the seventies and today

Our family has owned a number of Mercedes over the years. My Dad's 72 300-D ran forever and had over 400,000 on it when we sold it. Never had an issue with it at all. I own 2 300-E's one 96 and the other 97. Until recently I loved them both, and now the electronic components are slowly failing one after another and replacement parts can't be found anywhere.

I have a 72 K-5 Chevy blazer that just had it's 2nd crate engine installed. I can work on any part of this truck and fix it for almost nothing. Every single part on the truck is easily available from aftermarket suppliers and I just love it. My 2005 Expedition has 179,000 miles on it and has been a piece of garbage since day one. Looking forward to the day when it dies a painful death.

Mercedes did have some timing chain issues but the newer gas model engines haven't. Gears and even some timing chains on some cars are made from nylon material that simply doesn't hold up.

 

Nice blazer. I sold a 69 a few years back...still wish I had it.

 

The 6NZ ecm on the truck i drive just got flashed the other day. Its not original to the truck.

52 THOUSAND hours of run time on it. I was looking right at the cat ET software myself.

I was avionics tech in the marines and i dont think our gear had half as many hours on it from 1970s vintage birds.

 

Sure wish I would have bought a Dodge truck with the mechanical 6B Cummins
back in the day. Those trucks are worth more now than when they were new.

I tried to buy one a few years back......unreal how much those trucks are worth.

 

If you are looking for one buy in in central Florida and have it shipped to you, that aren't crazy expensive here like they are everywhere else. I see them all the time for 5k ish. You just gotta watch out for the roof being rotted out over the windshield but that's everywhere.

 

This is SO GOOD! Why don't we have it back here?




i think they messed up the grill----i would have stayed with a rectangular one. And the headlights---unecessary to make them that swoopy. Also, i don't like the pimp/whorehouse interior. i prefer cloth. (NOTE: i do not have anything against whorehouses----both the proprietors, employees, or customers if that's what you're into.)

Other than that it's very good.

i think the problem is that many "managers"/ "fleet managers" in trucking have never driven a truck and/or don't belong in trucking.

 

Soft, weak and entitled...
Just like the ##### parents who raised them.

 

Steak N Cakes...
Good Times.

 

Hoods at exit 69 I44 in Missouri still has full service.