What vintage car would you buy ?

[Arch]

That's nothing. I've actually got a collection of vintage toasters.

Well, 2 of them. Plus the one NT uses daily.

 

[cookiemonster]

I would save my money. Modern cars are safer, roomier, more economical, with better performance and hugely more reliable.

Only a half-wit would yearn for a 1950s top loading washing machine and mangle, so why do people go misty-eyed over sixty year old cars?

Because they're FUN!!!

Something that seems to be missing from cars nowadays, they seem to be developed by Microsoft Excel

 

[Arch]

I would save my money. Modern cars are safer, roomier, more economical, with better performance and hugely more reliable.

Only a half-wit would yearn for a 1950s top loading washing machine and mangle, so why do people go misty-eyed over sixty year old cars?

Well, on my old Mini, I could, if I wished, fix most things (and with NT's welding skills, anything would be possible). No need for a computer to tell me half the engine had to be replaced because a sensor had gone wonky.

I don't need a roomier car than that Mini was. I fitted into it, and so did all the people I need to give lifts to. Not all at once, you understand, I wasn't into that sort of record breaking stuff.

 

[colly]

I would love one of these.

A neighbour of mine had a lovely example tucked away in his garage. He might still have it for all I know.

 

[cookiemonster]

OOHH, A jenson

 

[ASC1951]

Same could be said of vintage bikes....

Indeed. And I would be just as mystified. I can understand an attachment to articles which are better made than modern equivalents (furniture, for instance, or clothes) but not to machinery which is objectively worse; and in the case of the Norton Interplod which used to dribble oil over my garage floor, actually much worse.

 

[gavroche]

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I would save my money. Modern cars are safer, roomier, more economical, with better performance and hugely more reliable.

Only a half-wit would yearn for a 1950s top loading washing machine and mangle, so why do people go misty-eyed over sixty year old cars?

How old are you? If you are under 30, I can understand your feelings. If you are over 30, then you have no memories of your youth.

 

[Night Train]

Indeed. And I would be just as mystified. I can understand an attachment to articles which are better made than modern equivalents (furniture, for instance, or clothes) but not to machinery which is objectively worse; and in the case of the Norton Interplod which used to dribble oil over my garage floor, actually much worse.

I suppose it depends on your definition of 'better'.

A modern NCAP5 Eurobox is only safer then a 1972 Ford Escort if you crash it. The solution is not to crash it.
However, the older cars can be more of an emotive experience to drive and the driver is more 'in touch' with the happenings of the vehicle's mechanical parts and its road holding, or lack of.

I also think many older designs and styles have better aesthetics then modern ones.

 

[derrick]

This would be mine.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbvbzVNff8I

 

[colly]

Stuff like old cars don't have to be 'better'. No more than a steam locomotive is 'better' than a modern engine.
They are a link with the past, and possibly some of them were 'at that time' cutting edge.

Anyway nostalgia is never out of fashion.

 

[ASC1951]

How old are you? If you are under 30, I can understand your feelings. If you are over 30, then you have no memories of your youth.

I am very considerably over 30, young lad. Old enough to have experienced some of these machines - the Jenson Interceptor and the Rover 110, for instance - when they were new. My parents' first car was a Riley 1.5 and my first car was a Morris Minor, but it's precisely because I do have accurate memories of my youth that I know that my Astra TD (which is probably the equivalent) is just hugely better at all the things I need a car to do.

 

[MarkF]

Citroens always pop up, usually the DS, but the most beautiful car, the short lived SM seems to be forgotten, Not by everybody though as prices now are rocketing. I would love to own one. Just look at it, how can it be nearly 40 years since one was made?

 

[BrianEvesham]

My choice.

 

[MarkF]

I also think many older designs and styles have better aesthetics then modern ones.

Yes, I can't see me swapping my 1962 Gran Lusso for a plastic scooter with whizz bang graphics.

 

[Arch]

Citroens always pop up, usually the DS, but the most beautiful car, the short lived SM seems to be forgotten, Not by everybody though as prices now are rocketing. I would love to own one. Just look at it, how can it be nearly 40 years since one was made?

That is beautiful from that angle. Bit of a brute from other angles though!

A dear late friend of mine had a CX for a while, that was eyecatching. Seen here with my boat on the roof, my old trice in the back, with space to add his Dawes Galaxy.

It had the space age single spoke steering wheel and interior door release handles hidden inside the interior door grips. Some scrotes nicked it once, and tried to drive down the local bike path. When they got to impassable bollards, they tried to leg it and couldn't work out how to open the doors. They had to smash a side window to get out....