[AT] While we are OT on Refrigerators. Now really OT - Hyundai

[Cecil Bearden]

I remember those 100K mile car days.  Dad &I would buy our pickups at OK 
wildlife department sales and government sales.  We would buy ones with 
bad engines or maybe a transmission.  I worked on both..  We stuck to 
Chevrolet. It seemed like these trucks would have an engine problem at 
around 70K miles...   I could rebuild a 350 chevy engine for less than 
$100.  $200 when I started balancing them.  I know of 4 engines I 
rebuilt that had over 350K miles on them when the pickup either got 
wrecked or just was rusted out.  2 of those engines are in grain trucks 
that run during wheat harvest and wheat sowing time...   Later on, we 
bought a couple of rebuilt engines,  and I ended up rebuilding both 
before 15K miles.  One got me stuck in Springfield IL when a reground 
hydraulic lifter came apart and bent a push rod.  I replaced the push 
rod in the motel parking lot and went on to Chicago to pick up a milling 
machine and back to OKC...
Cecil

On 6/7/2020 11:20 AM, Mike M wrote:
> Everything I read signals that Hyundai got a bad rap. We looked hard 
> at one when we had to replace my wife's car after a teeny bopper  
> t-boned me 2 days before we were set to go on vacation. I did more 
> research on them than I care to imagine. They had some problems with 
> their Theta 2 engines, due to millings left in the block after 
> machining. I believe they have come a long way since they started out. 
> We ended up buying another Camry, because they just work, nothing 
> flashy. The car that was totaled had 180,000 miles on it an ran like 
> it was new, it would have gone 300,000 miles easy.  Remember people 
> laughed at Toyota's when they first came out, until people started 
> listening to people getting 200,000 miles on them. This was at a time 
> when it was a big deal if your American made car made it to 100,000 
> miles.
>
> Mike M
>
> On 6/7/2020 11:22 AM, bradloomis at charter.net wrote:
>>
>> Maybe you all don’t remember the first ones that came to America. A 
>> genuine POS. Littered the streets of LA.
>>
>> *From:* AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of *cgs
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 07, 2020 7:44 AM
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>> *Subject:* Re: [AT] While we are OT on Refrigerators. Now really OT - 
>> Hyundai
>>
>> Thanks, Cecil. Cheap shots may make celebrities feel good, but we 
>> should rely on real users, like the guys who use tractors.
>>
>> On 6/7/20 9:02 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>>
>>     In all honesty I think Hyundai got a bad rap, maybe started by
>>     Leno and the other late night hosts.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Charlie
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