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Old 04-10-2008, 10:46 AM
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Arrow What will be of the SVX in 100 years

Do you think there will be any SVX's around in 100 years, and if there are, will there still be gasoline around to power it. What would one be worth?? Just an interesting thought that came to me recently. None of us will be around, so lets hear your insights and comments.
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Old 04-10-2008, 11:15 AM
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Good question, 100 years is a very long time. We are just getting to the point where there are even 100 year old cars in existence. Certainly there will be some current cars around 100 years from now, in private collections or museums. The question will be with so few SVXes, will some make it there? It will depend on wheter our passion will be passed down a couple generations I guess.
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None of us will be around
Speak for yourself.
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Old 04-10-2008, 11:22 AM
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One idea of the future as it relates to cars that's kinda cool to think about:

RUSH LYRICS

"Red Barchetta"

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude The Eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside The Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits

Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside


Great song!

This was inspired by the short story "A Nice Morning Drive" published in Road and Track in 1973. You can read it here. Well worth the read and strangely prophetic about a lot of things.
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Old 04-10-2008, 11:33 AM
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One idea of the future as it relates to cars that's kinda cool to think about:

RUSH LYRICS

"Red Barchetta"

Great song!

This was inspired by the short story "A Nice Morning Drive" published in Road and Track in 1973. You can read it here. Well worth the read and strangely prophetic about a lot of things.
You just hit on two of my most favorite things. Both that song, and that story.

As for SVXi in 100 yrs? Take a look at the cars that have lived 100 yrs, or even 50yrs. They were, in thier day, either super rare, and expensive, or so ubiquitous that parts stayed available for the long haul.

Take the Model T, and say an early Rolls. The Rolls was preseved, not through maintenance, but rather through not being used as much. The Model T was likeley worn out & rebuilt several times, because parts were cheap & plentiful.

As we well know, parts are starting to get hard to find for our cars. At this point, for an SVX to last 100 yrs it'd need to be put up, then excercised very sparingly. I think we ALL hope our cars will see 2108. The truth of the matter is, only a VERY few cars reach the century mark. (Buicks excepted)
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VERY few cars reach the century mark. (Buicks excepted)
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Do you think there will be any SVX's around in 100 years, and if there are, will there still be gasoline around to power it
No car on the road now will be around 100 years from now unless properly stored and carefully preserved. Maybe somebody will find one in an old barn 50 years from now and have the means to restore it, but that's a long shot.

Think of the tens of thousands of WWII warbirds built in the U.S., of which only a few priceless examples remain. They didn't disappear for want of parts, but because their value didn't begin to ascend to breathtaking heights until suddenly, almost all were gone. Most were simply scrapped.

That said, it's certainly possible that someone could conserve an SVX for that long.

And sure, there will be some gasoline around, but it will probably be considered little more than a pricey, smelly solvent.

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I think a more realistic question is how many will be around in 50 years or when the car is 50 years old.
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i hope it will have fully biodegraded by then!
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i hope it will have fully biodegraded by then!
Only if someone invents faux termites to eat the faux wood
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This was inspired by the short story "A Nice Morning Drive" published in Road and Track in 1973. You can read it here.
It blows my mind, how many Rush fans don't know that.
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