It's sort of a "glass half full or half empty" perspective. We should be happy with the traffic that we do have, and I believe some people have actually been helped. Having spent some time on the more popular sites (B-bodies), I can attest that, with more people, it's more likely that innocuous post can devolve into political rants.
I don't have Facebook either and I refuse to. I'd rather put the effort in here than have Facebook. I know that means I'm missing out on parts and cheap cars. But I just refuse to participate in the shitshow that is facebook
FABO has politics in a separate forum. If we had it here, then this entire thing would fall apart with a bunch of hurt feelings. There's not enough users here.
...but where would we put it here?
100% agree
Technology wise, these are the better cars. I think they don't get a lot of love because of California emissions, but in upstate NY anything 95 or older is exempt. They're the perfect rwd mopar in a state where they're exempt. You can do whatever you want with them
In Wisconsin (except maybe Milwaukee and Racine Counties?), everything is exempt from emission testing, since there is no such thing, so there! LOL.
Apparently that issue was fixed by 1980 because my Aspen was parked outside under the same pine trees for 43 years and it didn't rust at all, the metal is immaculate compared to other 70s mopars. Of course it was regularly driven during that time and cleaned and given basic maintenance too. I think certain colors of paint Chrysler used are more protective, the few other cars I've seen painted tt4 tan were also in good shape. The floors are painted body color and even though the window leaked water on the back floor for years until I fixed it, all it did was leave a surface rust stain.
My 87 still shows signs of undercoating. That, plus it's life in Arizona, makes it the easiest car I've ever worked on.
