So like in 'Life on Mars' you go back in time, but in your

[DervVW]

So like in 'Life on Mars' you go back in time, but in your car.... how do you think you get on?

Can you maintain your current car?
Can you get a job in your current field?
Another multitude of problems, blessings, how will you look at funny cat pictures without your iphone(Or other!)

Lets say 50 years so 1964....

[Fort Jefferson]

DervVW said:

Lets say 50 years so 1964....

I was there, and managed well enough with out all the modern stuff.

[Doofus]

DervVW said:

So like in 'Life on Mars' you go back in time, but in your car.... Can you maintain your current car?

Not if it runs on unleaded, no.

[wiliferus]

I drive a diesel, I'm guessing the grade of diesel used in 1964 would cause all manner of problems on any modern oil burner.

Same for petrols. No unleaded back then.

All modern vehicles would be useless.

[Dog Star]

I dare say the old fashioned diesel with sulphur would wreck my SLK. Tyres would be an issue too.

Work. I spent a decade as a COBOL contractor. I'd absolutely rake it in back in 1964.

[DervVW]

Fort Jefferson said:

I was there, and managed well enough with out all the modern stuff.

But would you like to go back? Now as you are?

[DervVW]

wiliferus said:

I drive a diesel, I'm guessing the grade of diesel used in 1964 would cause all manner of problems on any modern oil burner.

Same for petrols. No unleaded back then.

All modern vehicles would be useless.

Well that would be a big problem!

[Vaud]

I thought leaded would work in cars, it would just trash the catalyst?

[Asterix]

Vaud said:

I thought leaded would work in cars, it would just trash the catalyst?

I think everything would get gummed/coked up.

Tyres would be an issue as said and even basic engine/gearbox/diff oil could well be a problem as well. I wonder if they'd be able to regass my AC

Workwise - I did spend 4 years as a pro musician, so assume you lot wouldn't be playing Les Pauls anymore - The Gibson Asterix has a bit of a ring to it, don't you think....

[Chris944_S2]

My job didn't exist 50 years ago.

Nobody could run a modern car, aside from the fuel quality, there would be no spare parts available. But the ancestor of my current car would be something like this:

[Asterix]

Chris944_S2 said:

But the ancestor of my current car would be something like this:

Oohhh, that's a cool idea.

Here's 1964's spiritual ancestor to my Cayman S.

[strummerville]

Simpler times. You'd go and find a Beatles or Stones concert to see (so you could tell your grand kids/text 6 Music). Go to the West End of London and buy stacks of property for peanuts.

Hope Keeley Hawes turns up (oh, that was Ashes to Ashes, damn).

Oh ok. Just do the property thing. Sod the car.

[wildcat45]

Tyres would be an issue, as would fuel.

However it is 1964. I may just drive my Freelander 2 to Solihull, and find Spend King. Perhaps take a lawyer with me to sort out contracts IPR etc. I'd let spend and the boys have a look over it and suggest the Road Rover they are planning could be based on this.

Knowing Land Rover would be natinoalised - and assuming they weren't dumb enough to ignore a good idea which could happen - I'd not want shares in the firm, but perhaps overnership of the Range Rover brand and a deal where I get a cut out of every Range Rover built in future. I'd also get a deal on Discovery, Freelander Defender etc.

I would explain to Land Rover about Japanese 4x4s. Tel them how they will lose Africa as a market etc.

They'd probably not listen, but its a chance I would take.

[wolfracesonic]

The technology on even the most basic of todays cars would be worth a fortune to companies of the era, so I'd invite them all to bid for my pride and joy, then retire on the proceeds. Now what 1964 car or earlier would I buy to get around in, 250 GTO, Cobra.........?

[Papa Hotel]

With my time in t'army and knowledge of all the guff that happened in NI in the following 30 years, I'd be Field Marshal within a few years, I'd stage a coup and topple the government. You'd all be living in Papaland and there'd be none of this nonsense about Jockanese independance, they'd be the farmers, the people from the region formerly known as Wales would be the labourers, NI would be a military fortress and England would... wait, stop, I'm worrying myself with how vivid my dictatorship is in my head.

This nonsense isn't possible.

[RealSquirrels]

Have no car so I'd be fine.

Work wise I feel I would be able to collect several Nobel prizes.

[Justayellowbadge]

After I had sold my first novel, about an orphan boy wizard, I'd buy any car I wanted.

[Sparticate]

My fiesta diesel would be knackered in the 60's.

My 1964 AH Sprite on the other hand would fit right in

Job wise I would be stuffed as I work in IT, although I could always try to find Bill Gates and have a chat...

Might have more chance of getting into the police though in the 60's

[DougMcC]

My sierra and Capri could run on leaded fuel so that wouldn't be an issue, they are easy to fix as well.
And I'd find a job easy enough as I'm sure there were white van men 50 years ago!

[davepoth]

My 1976 Triumph Dolomite Sprint would be fine. My job is "working in an office" and so with a secretary to replace my PC I would also be fine.