Hybrid cars

Now THAT is a believable anecdote. When I started working at the
university research lab I've been at for 20 years now, there were still
some old mid-70s Fury station wagons in the vehicle fleet. Strangely for
fleet vehicles, they had 440 engines and were frighteningly fast
especially given the poor maintenance attention provided to things like
suspension and tires on older fleet cars. I have no doubt a few of them
are still out there somewhere, since they were sold (running) at auction
rather than scrapped. Every once in a while, the occasional VERY old
vehicle will pop out of the university system somewhere and wind up at
the auctions and they've typically been used up until shortly before the
auction in some remote research station. Not long ago there was a 60s
International pickup and a 62 GMC Suburban predecessor at an auction.

 

I work for a small government agency, and the vehicle assigned to our
branch just got upgraded from a K-car to a new Chevy. The K-car didn't
always want to start in the morning, but it just kept going and going
for years after anybody still wanted it to go.
--scott