Classic Car Porn ~ What I Would Like To Own
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harder to find than you might think
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1970 Chevy K20 4 x 4
1968 Camaro SS
1972 BMW 2002 Tii
2015 Porsche 918 Spyder (instant classic)
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retweetGrundleStiltzkin said:66-68 side pipe 'vette
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57 Chev Bel Air no post
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Benny, when Bazey @PurpleBaze tells you to fuck off, you probably should go ahead and do it. There is an explosion of anger right behind it. If you know what I mean.PurpleBaze said:
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Look, I get you. There's newer stuff. There's better stuff. But there's nothing like Dick Butkus or Jim Brown.1to392831weretaken said:I've never understood the obsession with classics. Classic anything. Progress is good, and usually things improve over time. I think AC Cobras are pretty timeless. So is the design of a lot of old British roadsters. Old 911s. Then again, you know what's better than an old 911 in every single way possible, including looks? A current GT3RS (or, hell, even a Cayman GT4 for a lot less money).
My FIL owns about 50 cars. I think about six of them run and drive. One is an early 1960s Jaguar XK 160 that used to be a race car. It looks pretty cool, but it was shit to drive. Ditto the Austin Healey Sprite. That thing was downright scary. No motor, no brakes, no seatbelts...
There was a time when I had a poster on my wall of a Ducati 998R. I thought it was the most beautiful machine that had ever been or ever would be built. I've been proven wrong so many times since.
I've always wished I had the time to pick up an old car and restore it (something tiny and light like a BMW 1600 that you can't get anymore), but my idea of "restore" would be pretty much to ditch the entire power train, chassis underpinnings, and interior and modernize them. At which point just buying a new car and saving myself the 1000 hours of work starts to sound more appealing. Look up "Project Binky" on YouTube for my kind of crazy (that I have no time and/or money for).
And there's nothing like the DP935, either. Will your GT3RS go faster? Maybe. But that's not always the point. Just look at this fucking thing. Panties in the general vicinity just start falling. This is my classic dream car. It will always be fucking awesome because fucking awesome doesn't age.
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YRYKcreepycoug said:
Benny, when Bazey @PurpleBaze tells you to fuck off, you probably should go ahead and do it. There is an explosion of anger right behind it. If you know what I mean.PurpleBaze said:
@BennyBeaver
@creepycoug
@GrundleStiltzkin
@CFetters_Nacho_Lover
@Swaye
@RuffaloSoldier
@BennyBeaver
@creepycoug
@GrundleStiltzkin
@CFetters_Nacho_Lover
@Swaye
@RuffaloSoldier -
I won't disagree that you'll never lack for potential friends if you have a classic show car: There are plenty of people who are into it, and those who are tend to be INTO it. Then again, a lot of people are also into country music, but that doesn't mean it makes sense...BleachedAnusDawg said:
The point is not buying something that's better. Of course newer cars are better. Shit, some modern minivans are faster than many of the old thumping V8 muscle cars of the 60's. The point is the style, the era...that the classic car is something that an entire culture was built around. Go cruise a new GT3RS and most people assume you're just another rich asshole who has more money than taste. Drive a 1963 Corvette and people think you're probably a cool guy to hang out with and talk cars.1to392831weretaken said:I've never understood the obsession with classics. Classic anything. Progress is good, and usually things improve over time. I think AC Cobras are pretty timeless. So is the design of a lot of old British roadsters. Old 911s. Then again, you know what's better than an old 911 in every single way possible, including looks? A current GT3RS (or, hell, even a Cayman GT4 for a lot less money).
My FIL owns about 50 cars. I think about six of them run and drive. One is an early 1960s Jaguar XK 160 that used to be a race car. It looks pretty cool, but it was shit to drive. Ditto the Austin Healey Sprite. That thing was downright scary. No motor, no brakes, no seatbelts...
There was a time when I had a poster on my wall of a Ducati 998R. I thought it was the most beautiful machine that had ever been or ever would be built. I've been proven wrong so many times since.
I've always wished I had the time to pick up an old car and restore it (something tiny and light like a BMW 1600 that you can't get anymore), but my idea of "restore" would be pretty much to ditch the entire power train, chassis underpinnings, and interior and modernize them. At which point just buying a new car and saving myself the 1000 hours of work starts to sound more appealing. Look up "Project Binky" on YouTube for my kind of crazy (that I have no time and/or money for).
Classic cars are also limited-supply assets - they are never building more of those cars.
"Remember when everyone had cars but they all handled like boats, had shitty brakes, broke down constantly, were totally unsafe, uncomfortable, and most looked like vacuum cleaner nozzles with fins? Well I popped my cherry in the backseat of one with Suzie Rottencrotch back in '73, so I think I'll spend the cost of a new luxury sport sedan on restoring one (read: pay somebody to restore it) and we can all get together and compare our shrines to our lost youth."
A quick Google search tells me the median sale price for a '63 Corvette is over $70K. People spend six-figures on those things. And the guy with his very own Ring Taxi is the one with more money than taste?
I guess what I'm getting at is that I know that nostalgia is the reason for the classic car/bike/movie/music/etc. obsession, I just don't understand why. Just because I was chasing tail and partying down in college while drinking Keystone Premium and Coors light doesn't mean there's a fridge full of canned piss in the shop. There are simply better things now.
