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Interesting but in my humble opinion, irrelevant. We all get lovingly looks, thumbs up and people making gushing comments all the time. No one can take that away.0
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Interesting article but I feel there will be no cars made after around roughtly 1985 that will get saved and restored to become "classics" for one simple reason....lack of parts and/or difficulty in restoring such animals. Your average home garage hobbists couldn't do it in the sense that they are not handyman friendly. Now if anything new lasts that long simply because it's made well and doesn't get artificially destroyed through a clunker program or the outlawing of the internal combustion engine....It'd only likely be because it was stored well and hardly driven at all.0
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Call me a romantic but I say poppycock!! My dad was a car collector and as he would dust off the old Stanley and rub down the brass on his old Cad and he would smile and say: "This is the end of an era." No one in their right mind would try to build one of these new "bellybutton" (my words) cars of 1955. Dad had sold off his early to mid 30's cars in the early 50's and kept his brass era cars because he loved them so much. My first two cars were a 1949 MG and a 1960 Thunderbird convertible. My Thunderbird was six years old when I got it and drove it more than 200,000 miles before I restored it and took it to a car show. It was 15 years old at the time and the leader of the car show told me to park it in the parking lot because it was nothing more than a used car. Everyone has opinions and perhaps todays kids are not as attached to their cars as we were in the 50's. However, there are a enough folks around that when they hit their 50's they will be looking for a copy of their first car to fix up and drive to the Sonic for a burger and fries. I do not see much will change in my life time--I figure I have a good twenty-five years left, and those will be spent driving my Hudson's.... These are the good old days!!! Just my humble or never to be humble opinion... By the way, where will the national be in 2035? See you there......0
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Browniepetersen wrote:Call me a romantic but I say poppycock!! My dad was a car collector and as he would dust off the old Stanley and rub down the brass on his old Cad and he would smile and say: "This is the end of an era." No one in their right mind would try to build one of these new "bellybutton" (my words) cars of 1955. Dad had sold off his early to mid 30's cars in the early 50's and kept his brass era cars because he loved them so much. My first two cars were a 1949 MG and a 1960 Thunderbird convertible. My Thunderbird was six years old when I got it and drove it more than 200,000 miles before I restored it and took it to a car show. It was 15 years old at the time and the leader of the car show told me to park it in the parking lot because it was nothing more than a used car. Everyone has opinions and perhaps todays kids are not as attached to their cars as we were in the 50's. However, there are a enough folks around that when they hit their 50's they will be looking for a copy of their first car to fix up and drive to the Sonic for a burger and fries. I do not see much will change in my life time--I figure I have a good twenty-five years left, and those will be spent driving my Hudson's.... These are the good old days!!! Just my humble or never to be humble opinion... By the way, where will the national be in 2035? See you there......
Right on Brownie!
There were plenty of collector cars built after 1985. First would be any convertible - I know someday I'll regret getting rid of the low mileage '91 LeBaron ragtop I just sold. Second are the high performance models like the Omni GLH and the Buick Grand National. The newer cars take a different skill set than the old ones, but they're not impossible.0 -
Quoting from this story, that due to "visual similarity across models, they'll (future generations of car owners) throw 'em away" fails to take into consideration the past. Who'd ever think back in the 1930's that with few exceptions, cars from the teens and twenties would ever become collector cars. Many of them had similar upright looks (visual similarity) and they also made so many (especially Ford Model T's) that "they'll throw 'em away". And indeed, many were thrown away. Especially for scrap drives during World War II. Yet, look how many of these cars from the 1920's are still around today preserved driveable in garages all over the country and for that matter in many other places around the world. Whether cars run on electricity, hydrogen or a combination of the two or whatever else, each succeeding car driving generation will long for and conseqently restore the cars they grew up with and admired.0
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TOM-WA- wrote:
There must be a following for this article... it appeared as a reprint in our local paper on Sunday.
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The writer didn't have much cred with me when I saw the '39-'40 Merc labeled as a '51 and the '66 'vette referred to as a "classic."0
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:rolleyes:The biggest problem with cars currently being built is they are really exaqmples of planned obselesence. Lots of plastic, electronics,need specialized tools to work on them and the lack of parts and mechanics. Many of the components in todays cars come from all over the world with little thought about parts replacement. Engines from China, Transmissions from Korea or Japan, other components from Australia or Mexico. Most of the cars of today look alike regardless of manufacturer. Take a walk through a modern day recycler and see what people are throwing away. Cost of repairs almost dictate the purchase of a new car. Yes todays cars are more advanced, have safety features that our older {REAL CARS} don't. But then todays cars are overpriced plastic throwaways and our old cars are keepers.Thanks you, Arnie in Nevada0
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Hudsonrules wrote::rolleyes:The biggest problem with cars currently being built is they are really exaqmples of planned obselesence. Lots of plastic, electronics,need specialized tools to work on them and the lack of parts and mechanics. Many of the components in todays cars come from all over the world with little thought about parts replacement. Engines from China, Transmissions from Korea or Japan, other components from Australia or Mexico. Most of the cars of today look alike regardless of manufacturer. Take a walk through a modern day recycler and see what people are throwing away. Cost of repairs almost dictate the purchase of a new car. Yes todays cars are more advanced, have safety features that our older {REAL CARS} don't. But then todays cars are overpriced plastic throwaways and our old cars are keepers.Thanks you, Arnie in Nevada
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Around 1960 I was riding (in our 51 Hollywood) with my dad and a friend of mine when the friend said the cars of the 20's and 30's were really well built and 'they don't build them like they used to'. My dad (a mechanic) told him that today's cars (50's and 60's) were much better. They were reliable, had good brakes and didn't have wood frames like the early cars. The tires lasted longer, they rode better and you could drive them on long trips. I doubt any of today's cars will ever be classics, how would you replace the plastic dash parts? Today's cars have many things the cars of the 50's and 60's didn't have, like air conditioning, which on day like today where the temperature was 95 with high humidity is really nice. Yes I know you can retrofit Hudson's, but I like rolling down the windows and driving! Today's cars might be throw-away, but they still can go 200k miles without too much trouble, like my 1990 Buick Century. Tomorrow it is supposed to be cooler, so I plan on driving my Hudson, with the window down!0
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