new or old
Posted by: sammy79
31st Aug 2012 05:43am
these days you dont see many older cars around. cars today all look the same to me. at least the older cars had a distinctive look not to mension a nice note to em. what aged and model car would you prefer? i like the old EH holden or SLR torana.
Lastcardlouis
- 1st May 2015 03:41pm
Vintage cars are - strictly speaking - those manufactured from 1919 to 1930 inclusive. But these days anything that's older than the person speaking or writing tends to be labelled vintage. The point about the enthusiasts who own, restore, maintain and drive really old cars is that they value them because they represent a snapshot in time, a living picture of what cars were like in, say, 1929 (just happens that I have a 1929 Hudson, which is a monument to the exuberance of America in the heady days before the Wall St. crash).
There are two key reasons for not doing what S suggests: firstly, it's virtually impossible from an engineering standpoint - the technologies involved are just so radically different - and secondly, it would destroy the character of the old cars. This doesn't stop people from trying, but they end up with a car that's neither fish nor fowl and nobody wants it.
Of course there are a few manufacturers who produce cars that look like the oldies but have modern mechanical and of course have to comply with the various current standards and design rules. The go well, feel like modern cars and look almost like the ones they're trying to replicate but they never quite hit it. And they go out of business.
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