"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

“There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks.”

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Heh when I was a teenager my dad bought a Datsun 260Z as a project car. It was a rusted out shell of a chassis/squirrel den and drivetrain when we got it.

    I remember taking turns trying to unstick the crankshaft, by hand with a bigass breaker-bar with the head loaded up with MMO. And the feeling of success when red goo shot out the cylinders like a satanic bukkake scene when we finally got it unstuck.

    We ended up getting it road-worthy, though I don’t think he ever let me drive it. I was too tall to really drive it comfortably anyway, especially once he put the RSX seats in. Still, I learned a lot about cars and French while we worked on it.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Because it’s your dad I’m assuming French language and not French kissing because ew.

      Also i am a few frescas decades deep but I think ours was a 280z. Think. It was the car dad wanted to use to pick up chicks but only the coquerelles were interested