Ah, an ancient wizard, then - carry on lol.

If I’d grown up around people who understood and enjoyed cars, my life (read: curiosity) would probably have simply gone that direction.

Instead I learned a lotta other things well, and so I’ve come around to this badly and through some longer paths, lol. I envy what I assume to be your built-in, muscle-memory secrets.

And hell yeah, I drive and enjoy a 2006. Had it for some years, went very deliberately from a 2018 Mazda I really liked to this, consider it an improvement (no one else in my life does 😅).

Only “outsource” the stuff I know I can’t find time to learn and do, the thing is fundamentally easy to work on and understand. Delicious!

A carburetor is a step too far, you invite misery, do you hate yourself? Take care, lol.

But yep would love to see more folks keeping old cars running, I won’t be taking the plunge into “~mortgage and routinely operate my own bubble of dystopian hellscape”, think I’ma pretty much lifetime “pass” on that flavor of nastiness.