Ninehigh
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| posted on 9/2/12 at 06:48 PM |
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Originally posted by AndyW
My post was too see what people would percieve as "classic" in the future. Not whats classed as a classic by dvla or anyone else. Just
what peoples views would be as to which of our current modern cars will be sort after projects in the future.
Ah, in that case:
Any vehicle which you see and think to yourself:
1. "I've not seen one of them for a long time"
2. "I remember having one of them back in the day"
3. "What the heck is that? My dad might know"
Basically anything rare due to age, being kerrap/rustbuckets/other, or great cars you just don't see much of anymore.
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scootz
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| posted on 9/2/12 at 06:51 PM |
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Originally posted by AndyW
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Originally posted by scootz
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Originally posted by AndyW
Nova 1.3SR...
Be still my beating heart! 17 year old Scootz LOVED those!
my first car when I was 17, on an E plate!!
How the bloody hell did you manage to insure that 
It's Evolution Baby!
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AndyW
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| posted on 9/2/12 at 07:33 PM |
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It seems strange that as a 17 year old back then (22 years ago) My fathers "mate" was an insurnace broker that did all his business
insurance, and I managed to get something like £350 fully comp which I could not believe but accepted. Started earning no claims from there!!
If I dont get a SR then cavalier GSi will be my next project
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loggyboy
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| posted on 9/2/12 at 07:52 PM |
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the 13sr was only group 6-7 IIRC, so relatively good vaule for a warm hatch, allthough £350 fc is a stonkingly good deal - at 17 I was paying just
under £500 3rd party for a T reg mk1 fiesta 1.1, that was 6 months older than me!
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morcus
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| posted on 10/2/12 at 04:37 AM |
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Anything and everything could become desirable in the future.
I reckon we've got about 6 to ten year till 90's become popular, under the 'my dad had one of those' type of thing.
Does anyone else get this where a car will come out and look completely different to everything else when you first see it but becomes very simillar
to everything else it's age by the time it's replaced?
Some cars I think that will become classics of the future, The last of the light weight at the cost of safety stuff like the AX, 205, 106, ect. when
was the last time you saw a new car with doors as thin as those with painted metal inside the cabin? My Panda is one of the modern equivelents of this
kind of car and I don't think theres any visable metal inside.
I think the last generation of propperly proportioned Saloons will become classics aswell, like the late 90's 5 series and 3 series, The Rover
600/800 and deffinitly the XJ which is already a classic in some guises.
I don't want to get bogged down in what makes a classic car, but Classic is to me a subjective and a term that is about opinion. Not something
that can be defined. To my mind anything that does use some rational method to determine if something is a 'Classic' is using the wrong
word by dictionairy deffinition, unless it's in reference to ancient greek or latin culture.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 10/2/12 at 08:31 AM |
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The term classic was an import from the USA.
What is sought after as a "classic" goes in an out of fashion, post-war Morris Minors, Mk2 Jags and Capris were all hyped a few
years back resulting in prices way above what thet were worth more recently Mk3 Cortinas were in vouge because of "Life on Mars".
Sooner or later reality bites Morris Minors were awfull, MK2 Jags were not that nice to drive, were rust buckets and expensive to maintain while the
Fords were simply cheap flashy cars. At least one of the classic car mags are staffed by journalists who seem to know next nothing about cars, I
particularly remember one the more down market describing the old Vauxhall Victor slant 4 SOHC as "wonderfully smooth" when anybody
that knows these cars knows they are a smooth as the Costa Concordia's bottom.
What in future will be viewed as classic is rarely what was considered a good car to own in its hayday.
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