When I was a kid, you financed a car for three years and when you were done paying for it, your car was slap dab worn out with 50 or 60k on it and it was time to get another one. Now pretty much any car on any lot made by any maker will go 100k before you even have think about any kind of tune and you change the oil every 7 to 10k. The average age of the cars on the road today is eleven years and most of us simply get tired of our cars and get rid of them before we wear them out.
I remember when I was a kid that cars from the 50s and early 60s seemed like relics of an earlier age. You almost never saw one and when you did, you noticed because it was so rare. But, now? I’ll see half a dozen cars that old on my way home, just a few miles, from work.
