-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Steve Wolf <=-

 SD> My friend's dad has a 90s model Corvette ZR1 and to change the spark
 SD> plugs, you have to jack the front of the car up, remove both front
 SD> tires and use a special socket on a loooooong 3/8 drive extension to
 SD> change the plugs.

My best friend in high school had a L82 '77 'vette. It was a bit of a dog 
(this was the late '70s, malaise era in Detroit, I think it made 180 
horsepower. My 2002 Camry put out that much with a 3.0 liter V6...)

He was a stickler for plugs, and used a specific brand, I think high-end 
nippondenso plugs. He'd gone to a local shop and replaced them every 30K.

After a couple of years, he went somewhere else, and when they did a tuneup, 
called him in to take a look. They showed him the plugs they'd changed, and 
there were 6 Nippondenso plugs nicely glazed and 2 AC/Delco plugs carbonized 
to a crisp.

The local shop hadn't bothered changing the back 2 plugs.

 SD>  To contrast, I had a '94 Honda Civic coupe that I
 SD> just opened the hood and all four plugs were right there in front, easy
 SD> to get to.  I once changed the plugs in an Autozone parking lot in
 SD> Marietta, Georgia, with my then-wife sitting in the car.  I think it
 SD> took me about 10 minutes total from start to finish.

My 2014 Prius requires that you take the windshield wipers and tray off to 
get to the plugs. I'd lamented that if they turned the block 90 degrees the 
other way that plugs would be a 10 minute job.

 SD> Another quip: "If we all used cursive and drove stickshifts, we'd lose
 SD> an entire generation [or two]". 

I saw a sticker on a car with an icon of a gear shift pattern with the label 
"millenial anti-theft device".

I'm looking for a new car, interested in a couple of Subarus. They still 
make a stickshift Outback and Impreza, I should try one out to see if I 
still have it. I learned how to drive stick on the hills of San Francisco.  



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