Really ecological cars shouldn't have leather seats, wooden dash...

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I guess naugahyde is now out of favor. The wife snuck in a polyester shirt this weekend.
After 63 years, it sill feels like I wearing a torture device. I think I could sweat on the north pole in a polyester shirt.

regards
mech

[Baltothewolf]

Originally Posted by Old Mechanic

I guess naugahyde is now out of favor. The wife snuck in a polyester shirt this weekend.
After 63 years, it sill feels like I wearing a torture device. I think I could sweat on the north pole in a polyester shirt.

regards
mech

Amen! I'm the same exact way!

[H-Man]

I live in socal, cotton or shirtless.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Chances are if you eat cheese, you are eating my cheese.

Tillamook Cheese?

When I mustered out of the military years ago, civilian life seemed exceedingly strange. One way was that in the military, trucks were sent to 'rear echelon maintenance' every few years. The only thing that corresponds in civilian life is a frame-off restoration of a classic car. Civilians just trade up and let the increasingly poorly-maintained car 'trickle down' to the lower classes.

Must haves

• Hemp particleboard. Heard a Mercedes Benz (not sure which one) has door panels made of such.

Must NOT haves

• Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, air conditioning, water pump.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Tillamook Cheese?

I was thinking Bandon.

The wife insisted we get Tillamook cheese believing it was the best. Bandon was cheaper, so I bought both and had a cheese tasting. I told my wife if she selected the Tillamook as the best tasting cheese, we would always get that brand. She choose the Bandon, and now we buy whichever is on sale. Both make a tasty cheddar.

[backpacker3]

Anyone who thinks animals get killed for leather is sadly mistaken animals, and for the most part cows, get slaughtered for beef and leather is nothing more than a byproduct of that industry. So unless you plan on giving up burgers and steaks which I certainly don't plan to do there is going to be plenty of leather to go around. As far as wood goes consider this, which is worse, chopping down a few trees, or manufacturing more plastics, even if they are recycled ones, which involves the use of some pretty nasty chemicals and other stuff you don't want to mess with.

Plastics are used for the synthetic fabric on the seats most of the dash and trim plus a ton of other stuff and the manufacturing process is not by any means friendly to the environment so if you want a truly Eco-friendly car don't just blindly follow whatever the tree hugging vegan hippies are saying but actually think about what is involved in that material all together.

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

...I bought both and had a cheese tasting.

I love blind taste tests at home. Unfortunately a five year old can always pick the Kraft mac and cheese no matter how many other things you throw at him.

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by backpacker3

Anyone who thinks animals get killed for leather is sadly mistaken animals, and for the most part cows, get slaughtered for beef and leather is nothing more than a byproduct of that industry...

Similar ANALOGIES:

• Chickens are killed for their FEATHERS for pillows instead of their meat...NOT!
• Cows are killed for their HIDES for leather products instead of their meat...NOT!

[freebeard]

• Chickens are skinned for their leather...NOT!

/but Ostriches are

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Tillamook Cheese?

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I was thinking Bandon.

Likely supply them and many others.