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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I know they're better in literally every sense of the word, from safety to performance to features etc.
And yes, I'm romanticizing. However. A buddy of mine restores old cars as a hobby. He's currently working on a 1970 lime green Superbee. 4 speed manual. 383 Magnum. And driving in that thing down a highway at 7 at night on a glorious October evening into the sunset, I was wearing a smile the likes of which a modern car has never generated for me.
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I know the feeling your talking about. I had the same one in September driving my '05 towards the mountains, top down, sun starting to set, when my passenger reached over and took this photo.
As an aside, I can't believe that was just two months ago that I took this photo looking outside today.
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I think my affection is probably entirely rooted in the actual products being inferior. Of course they are; they're 40, 50 years old by this point. Limitations make things cooler. The original muscle cars were unique to the world at the time they came into existence. What they represented was new and exciting.
There is a cold quality to most new vehicles. An underlying cynicism that's evidenced in either their style or their price point, and it sucks. That Superbee, brand new, would've been $3500. And $3500 in 1970 money does not = whatever they're charging for Hemi Challengers these days.
So yes. I'm romanticizing. Because modern stuff has no soul.
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I have a friend that talks about cars like you do. He loves old cars and I just see nothing but an unsafe, poor handling hassle when I look at them. He enjoys fixing constant breakdowns and smelling like exhaust. I prefer driving.
I think you're mistaken about vehicles increasing in price faster than the value of a dollar. Car & Driver laid this myth to rest a couple of issues ago when somebody made your exact point about VW GTIs and it turns out they're the exact same value today as they were when they came out 25 years ago.