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      10-13-2019, 08:49 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by MarkDemma View Post
My guess is that the problem with restoring cars from our current time period in say, 50, 75 years will be the electronics. Have any spare IEEE-488 or RS-232 cables laying about? That's what you'd need to connect to a printer from the 80s. The "classic" cars people are restoring now are pretty simple things, imagine if you needed to replace an ECU or sensor when that tech would be beyond obsolete.

Also, if things are bad enough due to climate change in 50 years, ICE cars might be totally banned by that point.
This is what the multi-million dollars McLaren F1 needs to make any engine adjustment.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/3/11...op-maintenance
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