Western PA is a good place to visit. PA as a whole is a nice place to visit. I could live there again if I had to.
Virginia is quite nice. And very close to the Outer Banks. My wife and I visit there quite frequently.
We own an Airstream and we've gone from Maine to Florida with it. Great
way to visit the many areas of the east coast.
PA is nice, but I don't like the fact they force yearly vehicleMassachusetts does the same thing with inspections. We also have an annual excise tax on our cars based on the estimated value of your vehical. In Maryland you pay that tax when you buy your car. Here it's annual and it goes towards improving the roads etc. Still there are pot holes. So there is a trend to drive "beaters" like old pickup trucks. You really get screwed if you buy a new car. How's that for a consumer incentive?
inspections. Seems completely insane to me. The areas are very nice -
so many cool places. Lehigh Valley, Lancaster and all the Amish (which
we visit very often). Very nice, since it is only a 20-30 minute drive
for me to get to Lancaster.
Massachusetts does the same thing with inspections. We also have an annual excise tax on our cars based on the estimated value of your vehical. In Maryland you pay that tax when you buy your car. Here it's annual and it goes towards improving the roads etc. Still there are pot holes. So there
is a trend to drive "beaters" like old pickup trucks. You really get
screwed if you buy a new car. How's that for a consumer incentive?
But yes, buying old beaters gets around lots of those taxes.Hey! My next retirement project :O
Hey! My next retirement project :O
PA is nice, but I don't like the fact they force yearly vehicle
inspections. Seems completely insane to me. The areas are very nice -
so many cool places. Lehigh Valley, Lancaster and all the Amish (which
we visit very often). Very nice, since it is only a 20-30 minute drive
for me to get to Lancaster.
VA has that as well. You get used to it. In fact I got the Airstream inspected last week. Good for another year.
I don't recall the details, but I know someone that bought a 1960s
vehicle touse as a daily driver. Put a new engine in it, and is exempt
from everything.No emissions, no seatbelts, no nothing. That was 100%
the reason why he didit. Another reason I would buy a boat from the
70s.
I imagine keeping a 60s car going wouldn't be cheap. It's going to burn more fuel than a newer model and, having seen the crash tests on cars for that era, it definitely won't be safer, particularly if it never gets inspected. So if it's more expensive to keep and more dangerous to drive where's the win? Is it just nostalgia / love of the older cars?
One could make a point that older cars are more safe, because they are solidmetal and built like a tank. The tiny cars these days could get crushed bylarge trucks.
Also, you can't find a vehicle these days that isn't connected to something.Many people hate that and the fact they all look the same.
The old vehcilesare just engine and transmission and have personality.
No extra crap that canbreak and cause extra issues.
We're definitely on the same page here. When we looked at cars for my son there was a checklist of crap we didn't want - keyless entry was a flat
no as they get relayed and stolen all the time. Manual handbrake (surprisingly hard to find these days) rather than electric. Annoyingly because we got something recent (like within the last 5 years) it's full
of "driver aid" junk nobody wants and just costs a fortune to repair. Currently cars need start-stop (proven to knacker the engine), lane departure warning (great, I really wanted my mirrors to cost 600GBP each and require coding in) and I believe crash warning cameras are required. Either way it has one and after a minor nudge from behind in stationary traffic it needed resetting by a dealer-level computer to get rid of a spurious fault which would make it fail the MOT (inspection equivalent) test. Oh and it's a 3 pot with a wet belt. Thankfully at least not
turbo'd up within an inch of its life.
Yeah, in Europe the laws apparently state that stop/start and lane
control must default to "on" and reset to "on" each time the ignition is switched on.
That's not to say it can't be coded out, apparently you can get some cars re-coded to default to "off" but such that you can enable the feature if you want to (ha ha ha).
Which would be quite tempting...
In the US, I think there is a federal rule on the auto-stop to default
to "on" or the manufacturer doesn't get some type of credit or
something. Not exactly sure, but that's what I was told. Nothing on
the lane change, though.
This just opened up a business for a smart person that made the
Auto-Stop Eliminator which connects to the factory wireing harness
in-line, and will remember the previous setting so you can default it to "on" or "off".
The site is autostopeliminator.com. I bought and installed it for my
truck and it works perfectly.
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join a roundabout in heavy traffic then losing half of that to
stop-start is very, very bad.
What truck do you have? I have a 2021 Z71 Chevy and absolutely can't stand the auto off. I can't imagine it being good for the starter. I always
forget to turn the button OFF when I begin my commute. I'd also like to
stop the back and forth between 4-8 cylinder. The truck needs "floored" prior to engaging at 8 cylinder at times.
And finally, as for making up reasons not to like it - possibly in North America where roundabouts are pretty rare it's less of a nuisance adding half a second or so to your launch time, but in the UK where you hit one every few minutes it is actually dangerous. If you only have a second to join a roundabout in heavy traffic then losing half of that to stop-start is very, very bad.
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