Let's actually look at what he said:
Originally Posted By: ridgerunner
Would like to know What vehicles still out there that are all mechanical. No solenoids, no electronic anything. Seems like I am always tracking down and replacing these POS gadgets that leave U stranded. Would like a simple fuse box and nothing else! Most likely looking at something pre 1975 I am guessing. Someone told me the Cummins 12 valve would be a candidate. Anything else? How about the square bodied Chevys? How about something smaller? Any cars?
The context includes his working on cars, presumably in PA where he lives. So I get, from the context, he's looking to buy something in PA that is more simple, that he can work on.
While you may be 100% correct that all of these cars exist in the world, I tried to tailor an answer that fit the context and that he might find useful.
Yes, the world is a big place. But finding parts for a Lada, or Daihatsu, or a Citroen is probably an even harder task than getting parts for a pre-emissions controlled 1970s car, and probably doesn't match his objective.
I do admit, I'm taking that from context, so I reserve the right to be wrong.
Originally Posted By: Ducked
Originally Posted By: javacontour
I think he is shopping the US market, unless I missed something in his post.
Originally Posted By: Ducked
Originally Posted By: javacontour
Anything gasoline will have an electronic ignition to say the least, unless it was pre-1972 give or take.
The model T suggestion was good. No starter solenoid if you hand crank it.
Phooey. Mines 1986 and has points. I've got a transistor assist kit for it but havn't got around to fitting it. My soldering probably isn't very good.
My Lada had a hand crank and a vernier adjuster on the distributor for on-the-fly ignition timing adjustments for variation in octane level. Used the former sometimes but never needed the latter in the UK. In USSR or Eastern Europe it might have been useful.
Citroen 2CV haqd a hand crank, I think up to the end of production, too.
You can get wind-up spring-starters that could perhaps be retrofitted, but probably expensively
Any vehicle with an alternator has diodes in the rectifier pack though, which I'd class as electronics, and it needs some electricity to excite the field coils and make more.
Retrofitting a dynamo might give you the ability to push start when completely dead but you lose a lot of generating capacity.
He says "what vehicles exist out there". The World is "out there" (and I don't mean as in the "World Series").
I took it to be a general discussion question. That said, Daihatsu imported Charades to the US in 1988, but they may have been specially specced with electronic ignition, dunno. I have seen 2CV's for sale in the US (The hero has one in "American Graffitti") but they may have been privately imported.
Lada's will be very rare, admittedly, though I think they were imported to Canada. I imagine driving a Soviet car during the Cold War would have attracted some negative attention to the driver in the US
