Cool stories! Keep 'em coming!
It seems to me that if the cars were only good for about 80-90K miles back then, why does everyone b$tch and moan if their new <insert late-model car here> can't get 150,000??? (It seems that guys especially like to complain about late model Mopars here, too)
Anyway, how about car crashes? How did real metal cars fare against each other? It seems that maybe insurance companies may not have been so quick to total out a car back then.
Were warranty claims as red-tape laden as they are now?