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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 3:00 pm Post subject: Car choice - did nostalgia play a part? |
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Hi all,
Nostalgia is ofted cited as a reason for a person's choice in older car, was that the case for you? Perhaps it's nostalgia for a particular car that you remember, or maybe just an era that you look back at with fondness?
Personally, yes I do find myself drawn at shows to cars I remember as an ankle-biter, but I'm not sure that nostalgia for a specific memory has led me to buy something in particular.
RJ _________________ Rick - Admin
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alanb
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 516 Location: Berkshire.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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My fathers first car was a Morris 8 2 door saloon, my first car was a Morris 8 two seater which was great fun although I only kept for just over a year. when I retired I bought myself a Morris 8 two seater and I have as much fun if not more than I did with my first more than 50 years ago. So yes it was nostalgia that urged me to purchase this one. _________________ old tourer
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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\not quite on post but I am searching for a Triumph Tiger 100 the like of which I owned for some years way back then. Trouble is, prices seem to have rocketed! |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3814 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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My interest really is in prewar cars so at 42 years of age nostalgia hasn't driven me as such.
I would say that my Grandparents did influence me when i was a lad with their stories of when they were first on the road in the 30's. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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consul 57
Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 487 Location: somerset
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:23 am Post subject: |
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yes i bought a 50's car because i like 50's music and i remember them driving around when i was young.
i supose we all do.
i now have the 2 vehicles i have always wanted and intend keeping them a long time! |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Oddly enough, no nostalgia at all. When I bought my Herald I was on the dole/crap job/dole merry-go-round, and looking for something DIYable with low fixed costs (insurance, tax etc) that could be left parked most of the time but get me to an interview if there was a sniff of a job - or, more likely, if the jokecentre felt like wasting my time again. It did that job pretty well, and when a job did come along coped with commuting for long enough for me to find something more suitable. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:41 am Post subject: |
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As a school boy growing up in the 1950s I caught glimpses of SS Jaguars from time to time and just loved the shape of them at a time when new cars looked boring with the possible exception of Citroens. By the 1960s most of these old Jags had found their way into the scrapyards and I couldn't afford to run one anyway.
In the early 1990s I had totally forgotten about them until I came across Paul Skilleter's "Jaguar Saloon Cars" in a remainder bookshop and that definitely triggered a desire based on nostalgia.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
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