Thread: Old cars are so cool

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I suspect a lot of it is driven by what interests you as an individual. One of the things to understand is to roughly 80% of the people out there a car is just another appliance in their life. They have no more emotional attachment to it than to the clothes dryer or can opener. For the nut jobs like us who get all wrapped up in these things it's incomprehensible.

As a kid on the long drives from Chicago to central Kansas each summer I'd play the "name that car game" to pass the time, as some of you probably did too. This sickness we have is apparently born into us. We notice what interests us and file it in the grey matter computer for recovery later.

Even within the hobby you can experience it. I often hear or read someone say......."yeah, '32 roadsters are all the same, they're really boring, blah blah blah...". The same for other year/models, especially if they tend to be out of the commentators price range. But how much different is that from the neighbor gal upon seeing a black '32 roadster in my garage and saying "I thought you sold that car last summer."? "That car" was actually a Model A roadster on '32 rails. Yeah, they are both black, both without hoods, are shaped like a brick with the fenderless wheels sticking out, but to the aficionado there are a lot of differences. Hmmmmm, those "rodders" who rail on the deuce roadster have exactly the same appreciation as the gal who couldn't care less about cars, and rods in particular. If you build a style of car, spend hours, days, weeks, maybe even years, planning, contemplating, redesigning, doing and redoing, bruising knuckles, cursing a ton, and the rest that goes with the process, you have a deeper appreciation for nuance when comparing one car/model to another.

Then again, there are darn few vehicles produced after 1972 that I much care about..........other than as an appliance in my life.