When weight was not yet an issue
04/23/2015
At the end of the sixties, people - especially in the USA - were still carving from the solid. If you put spare parts from back then on the scales today, it's hard not to be amazed.
The 14-inch hubcap of a 1969 Plymouth (pictured above), for example, had a center made from a cast alloy and weighed a total of 2.9 kg! You wouldn't want to be hit by one of these hubcaps.
Also interesting is a heater tap for the air conditioning system, as used by Chrysler in Dodge and Plymouth models. The weight of the part, which was necessary for temperature control, is a whopping 1.5 kg.
Yes, some things were probably heavier in the past than they are today, but whether they were better is another question ...
We would like to thank our reader Robi Schmidli for sending us these two examples.
