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Originally Posted by Etacovda
How common are older cars in the US?
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It's a regional thing.
We have harsh winters where I live (New England), the roads are salted and car bodies dissolve fairly quickly.
I suspect there are more older cars in more clement regions - and probably
lots more in places like southern California.
I had one of the first CDI systems for motorcycles ('70 or so) which stranded me in Vermont in a fairly spectacular way. The bike I'd installed it in just died so I coasted to the side of the road. When I got off I could see a faint blue glow in the area of the electronics box. Wondering what that was all about, I stuck my gloved finger in to nudge the box (thinking it might have been a loose contact with ground) - and woke up on the ground alongside the bike with a Vermont state trooper leaned over me trying to figure out if I was dead. He took me home (some cops are pretty nice guys) and the next morning one of the guys from the shop I worked at arrived with the parts I'd removed to install the CDI. We rode home together and had a "ceremonial toss of the CDI into the dumpster" party (couple of beers - plus the toss, of course
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