Some really interesting comments. I think a theme is developing, the scarcity of parts may be the major decision factor. As cars get more electronically complex with lots of circuit boards and hundreds of chips, any that are unique to that vehicle will only be available so long. I don’t know if mechanical parts will be as much a problem although some critical parts could be. Currently I’m not sure we can find new nav computers or DME modules for our vehicles, and resellers with reman units may get hard to find as well. I think this may be the Achilles heal of vehicles of our vintage, and you can only wonder if the timeline for obsolescence will shorten proportionally with later model cars. This is a sustainability issue that EV’s won’t solve with less carbon footprint, as US manufacturers push for 16MM vehicles a year and third world countries have exponential sales growth.

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