Just a little out of sync with the world...

[mrph]

An admission...

I don't actually like modern cars very much. Well, ok, I may possibly enjoy driving them, but from a design point of view, they do nothing for me. Boxes on wheels, with a few curves. A few sports cars don't look so bad, and I'm oddly fond of taxis and some of the more distinctive 4x4s (which I wouldn't actually want to drive), but... nah.

On the other hand, show me an old car - ideally some sort of vintage tourer from the 20s - and a look of childish glee will appear. I'm still slightly fascinated by cars from a couple of decades each side of that time as well, but not in quite the same way. They don't seem to have quite the same "It looks great" and "I'd love to drive it" effect on me.

I know that current designs are safer, more practical, and far more advanced - but, well, vintage cars just look so much better. I may be living in the wrong century. :)

(I spent an hour wandering through the Transport Museum earlier today - does it show? :-)

Comments

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need a Morgan. ;)

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I didn't need to see that, did I? :-)

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

I'd apologise, but, you know. ;)
If I could drive, I'd be selling my soul for a Morgan.

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

I live old cars, even though I can't drive. You know Grandpa in the Lost Boys, with that fab 50s car he never takes out of the garage? I could happily do that. There was an amazing art deco car at the V&As art deco exhibition a few years back. You'd have loved it. I seem to go for late 20s/early 30s decomobiles and 1950s jobbies with fins and acres of chrome.

Pete's aunt and uncle have a concourse-standard Morris, plus an Austin Seven. Lovely cars!

I wish someone would make vintage-style bodies and put them on top of modern engines! I might even learn to drive then.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Old cars are nice, and you're not the only one to think that.

However they're also cranky and annoying, intensive of maintenance, inefficient and slow.

*shrug*. I'll look at the old cars still, but keep driving my 50mpg, 130mph 'can shift a literal tonne of stuff' estate :)

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

Apparently my Dad used to have a Mayflower, in the long-ago days when he was courting my Mum. He eventually drove it into a ditch and wrote it off, and I'm not entirely sure she's forgiven him yet.

Just goes to show, if you want to impress women, some cars work better than others.

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

I have very fond memories of the Hillman Imp my Dad used to drive: http://www.hillmanimp.co.uk/imp.jpg

He did have a Jaguar before that ISTR (he got it cheap as the hood ornament was missing)