Cars you are too young to ever love/understand

Cars you are too young to ever love/understand

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Vitorio

4,296 posts

142 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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bobbo89 said:
The Sierra. Put whatever engine you want into it, I just cant get past the fact that they're a bit st looking!
Agreed with that, the earlier ones look like they are missing a vauxhall badge... The 3 door cossies look like someone welded two feet of generic car into a badly mangled escort, kind of a panamera avant la lettre!

And nothing to do with age, i just cant conceive of the mind that would like a modern vauxhall

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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I'm 54 and I don't get the Triumph Stag. I was about 12 when they appeared and I thought they looked crap, with that hideous roll over bar nonsense.

Then of course it came with that rubbish overheating 3.0 Triumph engine, because they were all too proud to pop across the road to the Rover factory and ask to use the thousands of V8 3.5 engines they had lying around.

I could understand if they were collectable in the same way Trabants are, so crap they're fun, but people actually seem to admire them.

swanny71

2,849 posts

208 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Old enough to either love or 'get' older cars.
Too old to feel the same about most new cars.

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

197 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Sorry but Nope

AdamIndy

1,661 posts

103 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Puddenchucker said:
VW Beetle (The original air cooled vesion).
I struggle to understand the affection for these as anything other than rudimentary transport.
Good one. I forgot about the beetle.

The most fking awful, miserable, noisy, uncomfortable, unreliable, slow, st sounding pile of misery I have ever driven. It might actually be a match for the hatefulness of the defender. Maybe.

I am also a big 911 fan. I love them. I cannot see the fascination of buying the older ones though. The 964 is gorgeous I'll give you that but anything earlier for the money they command you could buy a nice 996/997 or even a 991 in some circumstances which are much better looking(subjective I know), much more reliable, more usable and much more capable. Maybe I'm just missing something.

Frankthered

1,619 posts

179 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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It's Cobras for me. I've never quite understood why there were so many 427 replicas available and why they are so popular. Personally, I prefer the look of the 289, but the original Ace was IMHO the much prettier car. By the time I became aware of cars, AC had entered their state of perpetual financial crises, so didn't really have too much of a presence at that time.

I appreciate that they were one of the fastest cars around in their time, but I think my subconscious might have been influenced by seeing them trounced in race after race by a stock VW Beetle in a certain Disney movie franchise.

Similarly, I don't really get E-Types, although they were much more prominent in my consciousness and I do sort of appreciate them now. Not on my wish list though.

If I were looking for something of that era, it would be a big Healey, I like those!

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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I'm old enough to remember when mk1/2 escorts were total barry material, and I'll never get over it, no matter how successful they were

I also remember when Triumphs were just 2nd hand cars, and they were all rubbish
Stags, TR7s, Spitfires

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

197 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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spitfire..

also no thanks!


Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Sycamore said:
I'm 22.

The E-Type is ugly.
the FHC does look a bit out of proportion from certain angles I agree. But what would you consider a good looking car?

Guvernator

13,109 posts

164 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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I'm a bit older than a lot on this thread so I don't even have the excuse that they were before my time.

Old Escort's - Look crap IMO and rust to buggery. There claim to fame seems to be that they can hang the tail out but I just don't get why they are worth so much now.

Old Land Rover's - Been mentioned by a lot of people but has to be said again. Old farm machinery, I just don't see the appeal at all.

E-Type Jag - Beautiful to many, to me they look like a melted bar of soap.

VW Camper Vans - I don't like new vans so I don't see the appeal at all of an old, noisy, rusty one.

The common denominator seems to be rose tinted specs. There's no doubt that some classic cars are pretty decent to drive or even look nice, none of the above fall into either category IMO and it's just pure nostalgia that means people are willing to pay silly inflated prices for them.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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I had a bay window VW that cost me 300 quid when I was 17

worth it at that price and good fun

10k upwards now for a plain van, no thanks

kambites

67,462 posts

220 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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I don't think I have any; almost all of my favourite cars were designed before I was born. smile

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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There's a long list of cars I'm not overly fussed about but a much larger list that I am.

As I meet and work with new people I naturally talk about cars at some stage and its happened recently where a former colleague has restored an e-type which previously has never crossed my radar, however his passion for the car (& all its inherent 'quirks') sent me googling that evening. So I guess I'm pretty open-minded on the subject.

On the other hand....

The older TVRs don't interest me one iota. smile

wiliferus

4,054 posts

197 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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I'm 38, and I've never got the Capri. Just looks ste, led to believe they drive really badly, and they just seem all wrong. Even the 2.8.


99dndd

2,079 posts

88 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Citroen 2CV. Can't understand what anybody ever saw in them.

Air-cooled 911s. Don't see what the appeal is.

MorganP104

2,605 posts

129 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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R8Steve said:
The poverty spec Merc 190 that gets doted on by many on here.

I'm old enough to understand them but certainly not to love them.
You and me both, Steve... Until I had a ride in one recently (taxi in Portugal). It was very, very old, with brown/caramel interior, paint in a fetching shade of beige. Plastic wheel trims, wind-up windows, cloth seats, manual gearbox, the lot.

I surprised myself by really enjoying the experience.

SystemParanoia

14,343 posts

197 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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99dndd said:
Citroen 2CV. Can't understand what anybody ever saw in them.
Because silly smile




anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Fords, I really don't get the Escort / Sierra "RS" faithful, look S***, rust and remind me of Essex.

911's, some look good, but the value is ludicrous.

VW campers - rubbish, actually campers in general, a tent with wheels, no thanks.




GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Sycamore said:
I'm 22.

The E-Type is ugly.
Can we impose some sort of detention to these young people?

wink

Compare it to everything else around it! You have to take design in context, like popular music.

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 14th February 13:24

ChilliWhizz

11,990 posts

160 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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Dr Jekyll said:
Sycamore said:
I'm 22.

The E-Type is ugly.
the FHC does look a bit out of proportion from certain angles I agree. But what would you consider a good looking car?
Loved the early coupe's, particularly the 3.8's.. Then they made those awful plus 2 things with the taller windscreen and roof line, totally ruined the lines, and unfortunately put me off e-type's in general frown