Interestingly, I read an article about a photographer who noticed, while taking images of indigenous people, this exact posture. What she also noticed was that there were 80 year old women bending over from the waist with no apparent pain while picking vegetables. This diverged into reviewing old plates in medical textbooks which showed a much greater curvature at the top and bottom of the spine; an "S" shape, as opposed to our "J" shape. She now teaches a method based on her observations.
The article: http://www.npr.org/sections/go...
Her website: http://gokhalemethod.com/
Drum brakes suck, I'll grant you that, but brakes never failed without adequate warning. I've dropped many a hot engine into a beat up 60's shell and driven the hell out of it. Power steering? Doesn't really matter unless you're pulling into a tight parking spot too fast. One wouldn't notice it going out above 35mph. Hard to start? Only if you didn't understand how your choke operated so that you could properly adjust it.
Older cars are noisy, leaky things and may not handle corners as well as modern cars, but weren't death traps or I would have been dead long ago. I'll take a '72 Challenger RT with a 340 and A727 over a new one any day (Thermoquad is the finest carburetor ever made). I still choose to drive a '77 Silverado that has over 300,000 miles on the original engine and suspension. Nope, don't agree at all.
Center meeting at 4pm in 2C-543.