Always liked that Merc smoking the tires the whole way down the track.

If you want to avoid metric tools you are relegating yourself to vehicles built in the '70s.  Even by the '80s they were half and half.  Today basically everything is metric.  I'm now genuinely surprised when a standard socket fits better.  Though, in fairness there is a reasonable amount of crossover.  5/16 and 8mm, 9/16 and 14mm, and 3/4 and 19mm are generally considered the same size. 

I remember my neighbor was working on his daughter's car.  He was trying to get the caliper bolts off and whined about the bolt not being 12mm or 13mm.  I said, "12-1/2 mm is 1/2 inch".

He groaned ... unfortunately he'd already rounded the head so much that no fixed-size wrench would grab it.

Actually, a lot of guys really appreciate the change to metric.  It's an opportunity to buy a bunch of new tools.
 

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