I'm a long-time car guy, whose 23-year old car recently rusted away to the point of being unfixable. I found another of the same car model/era with low miles from a rust-free state. People chuckle...

If you're serious in your statements, let me offer some advice: A garage goes a long way to extending a car's life. Undercoating helps significantly if in an area that's not perfectly dry, and this needs to be reapplied periodically. Set aside the "that's not worth it" advice when it comes to repairs--you have to be committed to your goal and older cars may not be a great deal cheaper than brand new ones after the extra repairs and maintenance.

Mechanical parts for them will be available "forever", but non-powertrain electronics can be an Achilles heel (junkyard?) as can certain body parts after an accident.

Buying a second car as a future backup will cost you bigly as entropy slowly attacks it--I do not recommend this and older cars will always be around. Heck, I just toured a private Ford model A collection where one of the stewards uses a "brand new" model A (with a modern 4-cylinder engine) as his daily driver!

Interestingly, if you go way back, I've noticed that certain, very popular, classic car models have reproduction parts made today such that the car could be maintained "forever". I am still contemplating that route for my daily driver.

Good luck; see you at the classic car show!

Ha, grammatically goodly.

But this cost Hostess $100 million...

How would we deal with finding its bugs though? (ducks)

Why are we conserving energy anywhere? It reminds me of that "Jaws" scene where Brody throws his little water pump down in his sinking boat.

The exact number is mooooot.

I posted this here once about televisions:

I didn't know the Oak Ridge Boys had a lab.

Web page? Weather? Then it's just a different mothership.

I recently bent over a washing machine for several hours to effect a major repair, like I hadn't done in 15 years. Afterward, I lied on the floor, being still, for 15 minutes. Then I started slowly stretching every body part. As a 9-5 desk jockey in his 50s, even I was surprised when there was no fallout the next day.

Almost obligatory.

*I guess it would be the parents who would own the copyright.

Ha, good one! Although, there are multiple holders of a single patent, and can't a "company" possess a trademark?

Yes, but there are paths to the brain (and its equally important brain stem) which are not skull-protected--the ear canals, eyes, under the jaw and for that matter, through the nasal sinuses. One woman said she heard something unusual that changed as she turned her head before it all happened. One woman said it happened during sleeping when one would be parallel to the ground, allowing a path through the jaw. Just thinking out loud...

An interesting point.