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I was at the Ford garage today, talking to the mechanic and the paint man, wishing time would hurry the hell up and go by so the Cougar would be finished, and the thought crossed my mind...
How many times can a car be rebuilt? My uncle had a Model T Ford. The thing was older than Moses but he could still get parts for it. For how many more years will parts be available for our Cougars? If we rebuild these 351's and 429's and 302's and whatever elses, will there be parts available in ten, fifteen, or twenty years when they need another rebuild? How about body parts, carburetors, or interiors? Will someone always be willing to make parts for the cars that remain on the road? Eventually, all the parts cars will rust into oblivion, their interiors long worn out in other cars.
I ask because I found myself telling the paint man that I would go back to the original white "someday." When someday comes, if it needs more than paint, will I be able to find the parts? I had an email conversation with Phil Parcells about stereo speakers recently. Sounds like it's not related, but he said we live in a "throw away' world. Something breaks, throw it away and get a new one; that's how we do things. We can't throw away our Cougars because they don't make a replacement for them anymore. I'm selling some albums on eBay for a friend. They don't make them anymore. Someday, the needle will grind its way through the last album on earth and then they will be extinct. Will the 67 to 73 Cougar someday disappear from the earth?
It's only Monday and I'm already getting philosophical....
How many times can a car be rebuilt? My uncle had a Model T Ford. The thing was older than Moses but he could still get parts for it. For how many more years will parts be available for our Cougars? If we rebuild these 351's and 429's and 302's and whatever elses, will there be parts available in ten, fifteen, or twenty years when they need another rebuild? How about body parts, carburetors, or interiors? Will someone always be willing to make parts for the cars that remain on the road? Eventually, all the parts cars will rust into oblivion, their interiors long worn out in other cars.
I ask because I found myself telling the paint man that I would go back to the original white "someday." When someday comes, if it needs more than paint, will I be able to find the parts? I had an email conversation with Phil Parcells about stereo speakers recently. Sounds like it's not related, but he said we live in a "throw away' world. Something breaks, throw it away and get a new one; that's how we do things. We can't throw away our Cougars because they don't make a replacement for them anymore. I'm selling some albums on eBay for a friend. They don't make them anymore. Someday, the needle will grind its way through the last album on earth and then they will be extinct. Will the 67 to 73 Cougar someday disappear from the earth?
It's only Monday and I'm already getting philosophical....