Buy as many as you can. People who will want them will have no money. You will be totally set if you like to barter for hides and other scrap. That's what's going to happen you know. We are headed for arm and geddon. Some of those folks will trade you bullets for the engines. Not cartridges, just the bullets. So better arm up too. Surround yourself with IDI engine blocks and .50 caliber rifles. You will be set.

Seriously, ever ^&*(ing thread you start is the same "things are going to poop" nonsense. Do you have anything constructive going on in your life? Did you have a career, make any money, or were you a "down by the river in a van" kind of guy?

This isn't the middle ages, it isn't 1939, hell it's not even 1962. Find something positive to do rather than plan for failure and try to convince everyone else that the sky is falling. IDI as an "investment". Balderdash!

 

BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

You are right it isn't the middle ages it's more like the cretaceous period 65 million years ago.


And by the way all the money is paid back to the central planners plus interest if you want to keep your credit rating in tact.

 

Put down the crack pipe, Tinfoil Tony....

 

I was told they destroyed all the engines so they would not run ever again in the cash for clunkers, I know the old engines that were carbureted will be highly sought after and in demand if they are not already. I figure the old mechanical diesels as well.


One thing is for sure the newer engines are highly dependent on electrical parts manufactured in China and China is a authoritarian dictatorship trying to mask itself as a champion of human rights for worldly appearance.


You know who was smoking crack big time ? the guy's who put this country together and thought if given a chance the masses could govern themselves as a collective.

 

Hate to burst your bubble, but electrical parts are manufactured in alot more places than China. Even if all electrical component production were to be cut off it wouldn't affect vehicles on the road today. The rate of failure for engine electrical components is pretty astonishingly low today. Yes, GM has, in the past, had a pretty abysmal track record (and I am skeptical of them now too) but the other manufacturers haven't had as much trouble. If you are going to talk about what to worry about in a dooms day scenario, it isn't the fuel injection system or ECUs or what not, its stuff like bearings and half shafts, brake disks, etc. You know, the things that are commonly serviced by a mechanic (and not made here anymore).

The cash for clunkers program destroyed the engines on vehicles to make sure they weren't shipped to other countries (thereby eliminating the social good of the program). Most of the vehicles that were destroyed were not carbureted by the way; the average age of traded in cars was something like 14 years old, ie. 1995. The oldest cars that could be traded in were 1984 (25 years max age) so even at the far end you would still not have all that many carbureted engines. There are alot of things to hate about "cash for clunkers", the destruction of the traded in vehicles is low on my list.

As far as masses ruling, I think the other option is authoritarian dictatorship. I'll take the masses over that.

 

I can second the notion on them bullnose truck that's hands down my favorite body style, I really love the dash's they came with!!

 

Thanks for the education, well America hardly makes anything any longer and the masses let them come in and set their dictatorship up here in the USA.





Allow me to issue the currency and I care who not makes the laws!

 

Bingo! Who was that? Morgan? Rothschild? One of the Pentamvirate: , perhaps. Whoever it was, was dead-on. Sadly more true today than it was when it was uttered.

But back on topic, to your "investment" question, I wouldn't count on any vehicle or any type of engine going up in value. Depends on your definition of "investment". The IDI is still a wise "investment" as a zombie-apocalypse-proof SHTF vehicle. So, resale value, hard to say. Utility value, no doubt.

 

It just seems like to me all the new vehicles are way over priced and definitely to complex to be keepers for a weekend tinkerer.


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You have been listening to the lie about US industrial output, or maybe you're the one making it up and telling it over and over.

"....................America hardly makes anything any longer......."

Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_sector_composition
You should hire a minder.

 

Finally something I agree with. You can't "tinker", you need to have the proper diagnostic tools and some skills. And they are overpriced. On the other hand, most go well past 200k without much work, and most do a marvelous job of protecting you in a crash, power is back, and mpgs are impressive in many.

 

Sounds like that "weekend tinkerer" is just too much of a simpleton to understand anything then

 

^^^^^ Such a "simpleton" understands that, with the newest vehicles on the market having almost EVERY system under computer control, DIY modifications can run you afoul of intellectual property copyright law.

 

Riiight, please show me a case where somebody was prosecuted for that.