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In Bucharest, before we got to much cars (there are too many for the infrastructure... in the city there it should be no more then half a milion motor vehicles, but they are arleady one million) you could find old small gas stations that are gone now. The gas probably wasn't of the best qualty, but old cars had the advantage of not beeing squeamish on low qualty fuel.
Romanian greasing oil was bad... if you did 4,000 miles with it was good.
But why in U.S.A. automatic gearboxes gained so much power? In Europe they still aren't common... more expensive and there is still the myth that a car with automatic transmisions swallows up more fuel (probably the ones with hydraulic transmision are do, but in today's the difference of compsumtion isn't so big). And there are some idiotic sayings about automatic gearboxes (even about the ones that offer manual control too). The bad thing is that in Romania I don't know if some one can make a good reapair at automatic gearboxes... not even old style ones, let alone modern ones. I wonder how they would deal with a preselector gerabox (classic command, not electropneumatic command).