[Dean's World] Dean: Car Nostalgia

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Posted by Dean:
Car Nostalgia
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1191697181.shtml


   I've never been a big car lover, but of course lots of people are,
   including my mom, so I'm familiar with the phenomenon. But in looking
   at this [1]The Cars We Drove car nostalgia site, I was struck by
   something: it's 2007, and while I know lots of people with a great
   passion for cars of the 1960s, 1950s, and even earlier, I've run
   across only a few with a passion for '70s era cars, and never run
   across anyone with a great nostalgia for cars of the '80s or '90s.

   A car manufactured in 1982 would be 25 years old now and qualify for
   "classic" status if anyone loved it. Is it the case that I'm missing
   something, and there's this crush of people who are into the cars of
   that era, or, is it that the era of guys working on their own cars
   started to fade by the '80s and the cars got less fun and now are so
   high-tech that the guy down the block who works on your car for you
   doesn't exist anymore, and thus our relationship with vehicles these
   days is just different from what it once was?

References

   1. http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm