I am with you. I loved my 1944 FDW with Wakesha 600 cid gas engine. Had a magneto with a hand crank when the battery was dead. Take of the air cleaner, scare out the mice and wasps, pour in 1/2 oz of gas. And it would start on one or two turns of the crank. We have a brand new Caterpillar D10T ($978,784) that it took 4 really smart techs from Cat 4 days to get the thing to run for more than 100 ft.