Dandy Dave Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 ....When you have lived long enough to see an average, run of the mill car/truck that you own, or owned at one time, become a desired Antique??? I feel old. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfudd Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I was born in 1936. My son was born in 1964. He got his driver's license in 1981. For the last three years, cars have been listed as antiques that my son could lawfully have driven out of the showroom door brand new. Does that make me feel old? You bet! On the other hand, we ignore the problem by having only cars significantly older than we are. He has a 1909 E-M-F; I have 5 oldies ranging from 1913 back to 1906.Gil Fitzhugh (the old fudd, not the young buck), Morristown, NJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlK Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 You know your old when the car you took your drivers test in is now classified as an antique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Yes!!! I took my driver's ed classes in a 1967 Camaro convertible. Got my license and drove my 1931 Dodge. Let's see.....that was 1968. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest windjamer Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Except for old fudd, your all just youngsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Guy Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I took my test in a 1941 Buick ,but i learned to drive on a 29. I bought a 1931 in 1947 and that was the first Buick I owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AlK</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You know your old when the car you took your drivers test in is now classified as an antique. </div></div>I'm pretty sure the driver's course where I took my test is now an historic landmark. What's that make me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F&J Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 ...when the new cars out in the spectator parking areas at Hershey have now been on the show field for around 15 years now. Yes, now I know what the old duffers were thinking back in 1971, that had their brass cars inside the stadium on show day...they just could not understand why someone would restore a 40's or 50's car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 My granddaughter asked me if I took history in high school.I said no, they didn't teach it because there wasn't any yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxnard Montalvo Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AlK</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You know your old when the car you took your drivers test in is now classified as an antique. </div></div>That's true, but some guys here are so very old..."How old are they?""They're so old that when they were born the Dead Sea wasn't even sick yet." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Leonard Shepherd Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I used to work on this F84 fighter jet when I was in the Air National Guard. Now it is in a museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Took my driving test in 1940 BUICK that was half way to being an antique. Wont mention what my 1950 Super Conv., two yewrs later, remindes me of. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Dube Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I'm pretty sure the driver's course where I took my test is now an historic landmark. What's that make me? Now that's funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I know several people who had dinosaurs for pets...And a few who fart dust! I meself am known around work as the "resident dinosaur". Good googley moogley, it CAN'T have been 30 years since I set foot in the place as a 22 year old Operations helper... And now I'm the guy everybody comes to to find out what some of this outdated shat is and does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotts_DG8 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Am I an antique? I think its fair to say that I am broke in… So that being the case I believe the modified context of this question would be: will I become an antique?The assumption is that I (we all) will become an antique with time and I personally contest and challenge this as a complete distortion and misconception of facts. A car that was manufactured yesterday, 20 years, 30 years or 60 years ago was built to perform a range of functions within a set range of specifications. Using this as a premise, a car that is either maintained at its original operating specifications or restored to its original operating specification is not an antique but nothing more than a functional representation of an era or more specifically a point in time. Conclusion; my cars are not now or will be antiques. Rational; all will perform, at a minimum, all functions to the specifications at which they were designed to until such time a non-repairable catastrophic failure occurs.Correlating conclusion; I am not, nor will I become, an antique. Correlating rational; I will continue maintain myself to performance, at a minimum, all functions to the specifications at which they were designed to until such time a non-repairable catastrophic failure occurs.Bottom line, I love being human and being able to make up any rule or story to make my point to my satisfaction. I still though do not see myself or my cars as antique and probable never will be able to. Any time I am around any one of my cars, those of friends, or those at shows it helps to activate the little bit of extra youth within.BTW, I remember very clearly driving a ’68 Chevy Malibu throughout drivers ed; but it was a ’68 Plymouth Fury VIP that I drove for my license test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Scott....I remember that big '68 VIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 1DandyDaves</div><div class="ubbcode-body">....When you have lived long enough to see an average, run of the mill car/truck that you own, or owned at one time, become a desired Antique??? I feel old. Dandy Dave! </div></div>Every car or truck I've bought new is now considered an "antique" low case a none are "desired" If it was in a showroom in my lifetime it will never be an antique. Antique cars were made Pre 1916, the rules changes will never change this fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl B. Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 When my mother started driving, at 12/13, North Carolina had no drivers license law, so she drove many years, legally with no license. When she did take the test, in 1935, she did it in a new Ford 2 door sedan. I took mine in a 1963 Riviera. And, yes it does seem impossible, that it's now an 'antique' car...B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 1937hd45, Looks like I have a genuine antique car in my stable.I guess I aint no "genuine antique person" yet. LOL Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 Gee Wis Dave Moon, The place I took my road test is now a landmark, and small town park also. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCHinson Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 1937hd45,I guess everyone's thoughts on this subject depend a lot on their frame of reference.I was born in 1960. My car primary antique car is a 1929 Model A Ford. While I would love to have a Brass Car some day, for now I will have to settle with what I have. To me, that is an Antique Car. (My state DMV also agrees with me as does AACA Rules.... So for me, that is sufficient to call it an Antique.)Although I am no spring chicken, I don't think that I am quite an Antique myself. It seems sort of strange that I got the Youngest Driver Award at the 2008 Sentimental Tour while driving one of the oldest cars on the tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotts_DG8 Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 DocsGal, I like that... Maybe that was where I was trying to go, not being an "Antique" but always being a "Collectible" or for sure a "Keeper"??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPrice Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I know what you're saying. I took my driver's test in a '50 Nash Ambassador. That was in 1955.I'd love to have my dad's Nash back. That was some nice car.Yes, I do feel old when the cars I lusted for,as a boy, are now considered vintage or antique cars.Life goes on.Rog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 OK, all you antique car guys out there, here are the Rules:1. "antique" is a relative term.2. It relates to the person using the term "Antique Car" The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines antique as "a noun: an object made in a bygone era"3. If the car in question is older than the person using the term, it's an antique to that person. Example: For a person born in 1957, all cars 1956 and older are antiques. Rational: If it's not older than me, it's not an antique, and I'm certainly not an antique because I'm alive and my era continues.4. This interpretation allows younger old car enthusiast to own an love antiques that remain purely collectable cars to us and meet the definition of "Antique" to the happy owner.What may be antique to me may be just an old car to somebody older than I am. Example we had a guy in our local club who restored cars by himself until age 98. He loved Model A Fordsbut they were just old cars to him. He thought until he died at age 100 (in 2008) that real antiques (1907 & earlier for him) were the real antique cars. (his name was Ken DeWitt)I'm sure some will disagree and think of themselves as "antiques" while enjoying cars of there youth, just older cars to the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Ey ey Captian, Point taken. But what about all these old farts walking around with a "Genuine Antique Person" hat, or T shirt"...... Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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