[ExI] restoration-ready

John Grigg possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com
Thu May 27 06:59:00 UTC 2021


Spike wrote:
>With Tesla and the other mover and shaker companies, we have plenty of
cases where a contractor sends >people, often a ranking person to work out
a deal or do a temporary engineering assignment.  In today’s >Silicon
Valley pace of life, a prole lives at the office anyway: waking hours are
working hours.  Hotels around >here are crazy expensive, so they are comped
a couple hundred bucks a day for an assignment that might >go on for a few
weeks.  A typical office has a kitchen, a gym, showers and a place to hang
one’s work >clothes.  The SUV with a sleeping arrangement is cheap
temporary housing for urban campers, and it is >super versatile, because it
is right out there in the parking lot whenever needed.  Whenever I see a
SUV with >the windows blacked out, parked in an inconspicuous place, I have
a pretty good idea what is going on there.

I envision "mini rv" suv's that will be like a classic VW camper van, which
will also be self-driving. A living room/office/bathroom/dinette on wheels,
where you can focus on your work, because an AI is doing the driving.

>Classic jeeps were made for repairability and manufacturabilty, because
they needed to stamp them out by >the skerjillions quickly.  They are very
easy to repair, and anyone with a few basic metal-working skills can >make
body parts for them, since they are nearly all flat-panel with no compound
curves on the Willys MB.  >If you do repair work on one of those, you will
wonder why modern cars aren’t built like the Willys.

I look forward to developing some basic skills as a mechanic of such an
owner friendly automobile! I can remember the rise of modern cars which
have so many electronics inside that often a certified technician with
expensive equipment is a must for any serious repair.

I had a local friend rain on my enthusiasm for the jeep by saying that they
are difficult to drive, and not really made for dense bumper to bumper
modern traffic. He claimed they have more accidents than other cars in the
Philippines because they can be hard to control. I confess to having never
learned how to use a stick. Oh, I just found a Youtube video hosted by a
lovely young woman with prodigious cleavage who does a tutorial! Lol

>I talked to my friend who says the local shop which rebuilds the 2.2 liter
inline 4 is still there and there are >STILL some of those 75 year old
Willys MBs rolling around with olive drab paint and the white star on the
>hood.  The last original owner has passed on now.

Wow! They were truly built to last. What an anachronism in our age of
planned obsolescence...

The flamboyant Filipinos like their jeep reproductions to be a glossy
silver! Lol But as long as it has five passenger seats I am set for family
excursions.

John  :  )



On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:08 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *John Grigg via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] restoration-ready
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> William Wallace wrote:
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> >Spike, the days of the beautiful, big cars are over.  I am driving around
> and see this little cutoff car and it's a >Lincoln!  Bah and more Bah.
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> >>…What about the massive SUV's which I see everywhere? I can't get over
> how popular they are here in the Philippines…
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> John I think part of their appeal is that SUVs can be used as temporary
> homes.  I see plenty of people using them for that purpose around here.
> But it isn’t just the usual suspects doing it.
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> With Tesla and the other mover and shaker companies, we have plenty of
> cases where a contractor sends people, often a ranking person to work out a
> deal or do a temporary engineering assignment.  In today’s Silicon Valley
> pace of life, a prole lives at the office anyway: waking hours are working
> hours.  Hotels around here are crazy expensive, so they are comped a couple
> hundred bucks a day for an assignment that might go on for a few weeks.  A
> typical office has a kitchen, a gym, showers and a place to hang one’s work
> clothes.  The SUV with a sleeping arrangement is cheap temporary housing
> for urban campers, and it is super versatile, because it is right out there
> in the parking lot whenever needed.  Whenever I see a SUV with the windows
> blacked out, parked in an inconspicuous place, I have a pretty good idea
> what is going on there.
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> >… In this country they lovingly build copies of the classic U.S. Army WW2
> jeep, and I just may buy one for just a few thousand dollars. They are
> known to last forever!
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> John
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> Classic jeeps were made for repairability and manufacturabilty, because
> they needed to stamp them out by the skerjillions quickly.  They are very
> easy to repair, and anyone with a few basic metal-working skills can make
> body parts for them, since they are all nearly all flat-panel with no
> compound curves on the Willys MB.  If you do repair work on one of those,
> you will wonder why modern cars aren’t built like the Willys.
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> Parting shot: I used to belong to a 4WD club in southern Cal (China Lake
> Naval base.)  After the war, the Defense Department stored several thousand
> jeeps out there which had never been deployed.  After a year or two, they
> auctioned them off for a few hundred bucks each.  They were practically
> new, street legal and pristine except for having spent a coupla years
> enduring being exposed to the elements, which Jeeps do very well.  I talked
> to my friend who says the local shop which rebuilds the 2.2 liter inline 4
> is still there and there are STILL some of those 75 year old Willys MBs
> rolling around with olive drab paint and the white star on the hood.  The
> last original owner has passed on now.  They are worth a lot more than a
> few hundred bucks now.
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> spike
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