When old cars become retro

I'm thinking of buying a Saab like that later in the year for me and Mrs K, to go with my 1.8t wagon. Our kids are rarely with us these days so we're thinking top down and weekends away. They do seem stupidly cheap.

As to the question, the first Corsa was to my eyes always a neat looking little car that had it's reputation sullied by the McDonalds car park drifter generation. You don't see many of them anymore so I tend to notice them. I think for me the decider is as someone said above, that "I haven't seen one of those for ages" thing.

I think often the poverty spec cars age better than the sporty and luxury versions because they aren't slaves to fashion in the same way. I'd still love a MK2 Golf GTi but these days I'd be looking to lose a lot of the plastic add-ons as I think they make them look a bit dated.

That is well cheap and although the tax is a curse word take, it’s the insurance that’s putting the brakes on it for me - I’ve just put the reg into confused and it’s coming up more than my Porsche! Well that and the fact you’re miles away from me...

I don't think theres any doubt that a 25 year old Astra is retro, as soon as someone thinks 'cor I havnt seen one of those in a while, then its retro. My Cube gets reactions Of 'what on earth is that?!?' and I get reactions from people with looks on their faces like ive got my head on upside down. It creates alot of interest ,but not beecause its retro, its not old enough, even though it was well received at the weekender campsite, so does it even have to be old to be retro? Is retro just another word for 'old'?

I meant "related". Goddam these phones😬😬😉😉

Mmmm right.

Retro is a very strange thing indeed! It's something HotWire covered quite some time ago!

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that age plays a role but not as big a role as you think. What memories the car brings back, how it captured a generation, whether it be for better or for worse (but eventually better if you look at the Essex scene) is what makes things retro.

Looking through the [urlhttp://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/205098/used-live-retro-heaven]How we used to live[/url] thread had a couple of shots of retro shows, most of the cars there were 20-30 years old. These days I've seen forum members here and elsewhere mock cars in this age group and in the case of one local event turn the car away and threaten to shut down the show! it does show how attitudes have changed a little.

Going back to my point. It's really interesting how the interest varies for the cars. If you went off age it would be an easy one to predict. But it isn't. From what I can sell out of my cars The Retroness scale going from highest to lowest seems to be:

-Citroen 2CV
-BMW E46 M3
-Mercedes W124; it seems to have less interest than the M3. Yes I know I didn't include the Laon story with that, but even so the M3 has usurped it by quite a way when you consider I put in 2 years worth of info into the space of a fortnight on the thread.

If it were a W210 for the reader's rides section I doubt it would have a similar amount of interest to the M3. But maybe it would...

Another forum with more modern content love the W124. My retro friends on the other hand aren't convinced, yet most of them are on the 2CV and the M3, following this forum's perceptons down to the tee.

bumpers were very badly made and could be cracked just by leaning against them. Thin coating of brittle plastic covering insulation foam. what could go wrong?

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lambos, porches etc are nice to look at but there isnt much chance of working on one yourself, but a nice v6 mondeo? yes please!

So is that like old, and old style?

That has totaly broken my train of thought.