You name it and I have likely driven it: Ford Model A, Edsel wagon, Manx dune buggy, and all the ’50s and ’60s favorites. I’ve found that each cool car seems to elicit its own reactions.
Drive a Model A Ford Coupe or, in our case, carry it on an open trailer from Massachusetts to Florida, and you …
Lot's of "BroDozers" around here. Lifted trucks with huge tires sticking out the side, and goofy LED lights in the wheel wells, etc. Most folks view them as penis extenders...
What attracted me to the Grassroots/Classic magazines decades ago, and has kept me a reader longer than any other publication, was the attitude and perspective that no matter what you drove or what project was in your garage...it was cool.
Thanks for the article and the message. I'm afraid I have to plead guilty as charged. Sometimes I just have to ask myself "what on earth are you doing?". You write "probably not going to change the world with this story"... maybe but it got me to stop and think. Thanks very much.
Nailed it!
I've been driving a period modified 60's mini like I stole it for 30yrs, and it's always met with a smile and a laugh. So approachable, unpresumtuous.
Que the 911, a cherry car picked up in spring of '20, silver, quiet, and cost less than a new Honda Civic. Instantly I'm the shiny happy person, no matter how chill I drive....to the point I've stopped driving it to work, just not fun. Everyone seems to think you're some rich ahole in a Porschà, couldn't be further from it. I bought because I enjoy driving, and wanted to scratch that inch while I could, and have zero interest in impressing anyone (see the mini above) but jeeze it gets tiring. Hopefully the 5000km trip for car week will rekindle some good feelings for it.
In America going big is the default decision for just about everything, if you can buy it. Perceptions of safety, power and just more sells and dominates thinking. Inconvenience, clutter and mindless mowing be damned.
Pickup trucks are as useful today for most driving and hawling as cowboy boots are for walking.
It takes more effort to make do with less. Defensive driving is harder. I get it, just don't like that part of our culture. And its not good for us. Its outrageous!
Our fleet is reduced to a low Volvo V60, a simple Mini Cooper S, two 1958 Giuliettas, a S1 Etype FHC and a Corvair Corsa. We've been "clocking" less than 10k miles annually since Covid and avoid highways like the plague because angry and distracted drivers seem to prefer them.
i prefer zero mostel's line from 'the producers:' 'if you've got it, flaunt it.' i wave at all drivers of odd vehicles, from a new porsche convertible to a coalrolling diesel pickup. it makes life more fun.
In reply to Automobilist :
I get almost every type of automotive trend from Stance to low riders, but cannot get on board with thee bro-dozers and the kinds of people that drive them.
In reply to husky450cr :
Always inclusive and not exclusive. To us a Triumph Spitfire is just as cool, ok, maybe not quite as cool as our 997 Porche project.
In reply to hauckr1111 :
Happy to help and believe, me I am not exactly innocent when it comes to driving like an ass, but it has gotten to the point, I avoid interstates, because the lack of sense and talent and the ability to pay attention are gone in our society.
In reply to PetervonA2 :
Amen to that and not a bad garage line up.
In reply to tolyarutunoff :
I can do that with almost any automotive style or "thing", but struggle with the coal rolling. It seems so rude.
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