Other old technology
Motorola GP300 radios - I have three of these that I keep in a toolbox in my van, with a couple of our PMR channels programmed in and one or two of the local amateur repeaters. The batteries are rather out-of-date but as long as they're charged once every couple of weeks they last about a day. The radios themselves are over 20 years old. In another 20 years, I'm prepared to wager a very small sum that we'll still have 40-year-old GP300s struggling on with 37-year-old batteries that last about half an hour, but no 20-year-old Mototrbos.
(edit: if you saw Secrets of the Universe, these are the radios they use for the "13 bongs from Big Ben" segment. And just about everywhere else on BBC locations.)

I drive a 1988 Citroen CX 22TRS. If it goes wrong, it tends to do so with a lot of advance warning and in fairly predictable ways. Despite being quite a large heavy car, with a 2.2 litre carburettor-fed engine, it gets around 32mpg (on 4-star it got 36mpg - that's how ecologically-friendly unleaded is :-/ ). It's not particularly fast, but the speed limit is 70mph anyway. At that speed, you can run over a brick and barely feel a ripple through the soft, heavily-damped hydraulic suspension. If you don't mind it leaning over a bit, you can sling it through corners that would make a BMW slide without any drama. The variable power steering and lack of brake pedal travel catches newbie drivers out, but after 20 miles or so you get used to driving with a very light touch. After that, everything else feels like a lumbering Eastern European tractor.

And finally - amplification. My friend Ben gave me an HH Electronics Combo 212 that he found when he moved into his new house. It works perfectly, apart from a scratchy pot in the tone controls and the electroluminescent display no longer luminesces. It sounds wonderful, with tight, punchy bass and the really lovely warm-sounding "Valve Sound" distortion. I've stuck my guitars through it, my basses through it and a couple of synths through it. It makes a lot of very "solid"-sounding noise. Great stuff. It must be about 30 years old, too.

I have some great old kit and I'm not apologising for anything.
(gordonjcp, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:51, 2 replies)

I've got one of the 2x12 HH combos, the valvestate Musician..
the panel still glows nicely in the dark. Solid as anything too, it's fallen out of a van and down stairs and it works quite happily.
( moohalaa, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:59, closed)

Hah! The old Citroen.
The faster you go, the more it soaks up the bumps. We used to beg my dad to go 70mph over them. Although my cousin used to get car sick because it was too smooth!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:03, closed)