havin'funfarming - 10/31/2014 07:57

Funny thing is our kids will probably think the same thing about our "old days" also. People will often sit around and talk about the "good old days" and have a good laugh. In truth though, there were many, many hardships that would be easy to prevent today. As an example, go visit a graveyard sometime and look at how many children passed on early. They had large families back then for a reason. Many didn't make it to adulthood. Also, the knowledge of what was happening in the world was a lot smaller then so it gave the impression of being simpler. As far as vehicles go in general they are built a lot better today. At least as far as the drivetrain goes. Many will last a few hundred thousand miles without even changing the spark plugs. The bodywork is no where near as dint resistant though. Needed a bigger hammer to do body work back then!