RE: Car enthusiast or love cars and fixing them this game is for you.
November 3, 2016 at 4:16 am
(November 2, 2016 at 7:09 pm)abaris Wrote: You know, if I played a game on building a car, better make it a real one. My father was a trained mechanic since 1940 and he let me in on the secrets of his trade. Back in the 80ies when I drove cars from the 60ies and early 70ies I knew all about taking them apart and putting them together again. Given half a chance, I would still drive a car from the 70ies, but today they're luxury products by now. As opposed to the 80ies when you got them for an apple and an egg. I hate todays cars where you have to be a computer expert with the right equipment to keep them going.
I love spinning wrenches, and have done light-to-moderate work on all my vehicles. My favorites were the two early-70s Toyotas I've owned. Simple iron engines, no computers -- even at (at the time) an ignorant kid, I could open the hood and spot the problem pretty fast. I never took apart an engine, but replaced/repaired just about everything above the valves, and that has gotten me home on a couple of occasions (in other vehicles -- those two Toyotas never left me stranded) when all I had was a simple toolkit and a pair of Mark I eyeballs. Computerized engines suck, from that angle.