Can Gliders get more valuable

Yay!

 

Would have been more valuable with less of them available. Judging from the stories I have heard they break down as often as a new one.

Inside a decade gliders will go away as manufactures move to integrated power trains.

 

I am laughing at these groups that oppose.

It was just as strongly opposed by an unusual alliance of public health groups like the American Lung Association, (HA. Smoked 4 packs and drank the fuel for 30 years am still here...) environmental groups like the Environmental Defense Fund (You couldnt defend a plastic bag. We would have to stick it into a paper bag now) and major industry players like United Parcel Service (They ran on the trucks for decades), the largest truck fleet owner, and Volvo Group, one of the largest truck manufacturers. (So? They built the polluters just the same as the others.)

I think the older engines are still of value. Now if we can find a way to produce them new. Some of them were pretty good engines for what they were.

I grew up when the age of muscle and large car engines were choked by emissions back in the 70's and they simply failed. That's way you never see say a 76 Monarch. It's junk until you strip the emissions off it. We once bought a big buick wagon with like a 500 V8 and pulled it (78 or so), stripped the emissions crap off it and put it into a older buck that would fit it.

The result was a buick that would out run me on torque alone against my 71' 351 engine with a variety of goodies on it. It's (The buick Lasabre convertable) was simply gone and just getting into high end as I tried to catch it on my own top end. (Not happening because of distance gained by it on sheer torque)


Here is what I think. Enjoy the gliders, I would have bought one too because it's what I run many years when they were not considered a problem in any way during their time. But they need correct work done right to be able to keep going like new. One mistake anywhere inside those things and they will tear themselves apart.

The reason I say this is that some states are talking up a ban on internal combustion vehicles. Even our own in Arkansas had a few whispers at the State house not long ago. You might find a successful federal ban on pre 2000 trucks entirely. Unless you can prove they were of antique or some other value but non Tier One Interstate or intrastate commerce.

As far as the pollution, they can forget it. All you have to do is check air quality in some areas on bad days. We had trucks that smoked when working way back in the day along with leaded gasoline etc and it really did not have a problem growing up around that.

If you had a paper wad in a roll shape inside a large enough can behind a cool enough big truck exhaust you can capture everything that is a particle emitted by a desiel engine no matter how small or big, (Particularly mining engines that are really small and can do this when they tow workers 10 miles into a shaft) But the cost of replacing the darn thing will eat up the profits among other problems.

That is where I am. There was a certain year engine I had, a Detriot 515 I think from the 2000 era in a Century and its about all the engine I wanted everywhere. There would be times I could have used more horses but with a team set of two drivers, that's not important, the load will get there. We put about 7500 hours on that engine in 10 months without anything work done other than a bit of alternator replacement, a water temp sensor and a couple of other minor wear and tear things hardly worth mentioning. It was a good engine. But wear and tear in team work within the first year at 200,000 plus miles started to show up in other ways fast so by the time we moved on, we were due for a new tractor anyway. If the company leased the tractors and ran em out to trade em in worn for less than buying to keep new, that's their choice.