Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[clan chieftain]

Having attended classic events now for many years I would say that the average owners age is 40plus. There are not many younger ones maintaing classic cars to keep them original. They want to fit redtops and lower suspensions and soup them up. They were not built to take the modern stuff. Just an observation.
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[buzzy bee]

Hi

I am 22, and like things old, from a 1885 PF to my 1996 mini.

My mate is 22, and likes old stuff, from 1898 to modern day.

We are around, but like you say alot of people our age are into saxos etc!

Cheers

Dave

[Den]

What's a redtop?

Anyways, I have a kid in Alberta on my own forum who's 16 and been working on a '66 GMC pickup since he was 14. At 14 he also got grounded for sneaking part of a Model A Ford (in bits) home after having it delivered to his school!! HAHAHA.
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[Rick]

I got into all this at the age of 15 or so, admittedly a few years back now I think a lot of younger people are getting in to the hobby, although often with later cars (70s/80s) rather than the older stuff. Saying that, quite a few VSCC members are at the younger end of the age spectrum, competing in tweaked Austin 7s and the like, so there is hope!!!

R
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[bob2]

Well I am 30 and have always loved old cars, got the bug for minis firstly but then I fell in love with MGs especially A's and B's but nowadays I like anything old lets say till the 70's!!
However I like original staff (or restored to look original) but I also like the modded staff, like for example a modified anglia 105e sat on the ground with some nice alloys on. But it has to be period stuff or else modern replicas of period stuff and colour is also very important, I don't like old cars with metallics etc!!
Got some friends who r also keen on classics and r quite young, one being 18 only last year so my thinking is that this hobby is growing!!
Many youngsters who as Rick said get into this hobby with 70s and 80s cars then end up getting hooked on older cars also!!

[Giggles]

My hubby was born into the classic vehicle scene, his father was one of the founders of a local transport museum and hubbys first car was a standard 1965 Beetle.

We got together aged 18 and 20 thanks to this transport musuem (we were both on the restoration team). Shortly after that we bought a 1952 fire engine. We bought our first classic car together when I was 22 and he 24 in 1996.

Now I'm 34 and his 36 and we own both modified and standard classic cars. (Yes it is possible to like both as I've stated in previous threads on here.) In one of our local clubs there are several people aged under 40 that like both and own both, because they like both standard & modified cars. And thinking about it, most of these people own more standard cars than modified ones. (shock!)

Maybe in Suffolk, we buck the trend or maybe we're more open minded.

Someone hide that can opener and the wooden spoon!
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[47p2]

I was having this discussion this morning with the garage owner when I was in for my MOT.
I think a lot of what we look for in old cars is the nostalgia thing, from our childhood.
I never saw a P2 when I was a kid, and most of what was on the roads then was from the late 50s through to the 60s.

I did however have an uncle who owned a scrap yard and I was in my element when I went to visit.
The yard was full of Mk VII, VIII & IX Jaguars, Riley RM series, Humbers, Austins, Morris, Wolseley, Alvis and many more cars all from the 40s, 50s and early 60s. I was always atracted to the Jaguars and Riley RMs which were wonderful and I think this is where I get my hankering for old cars. I could sit in the scrap cars all day long pretending to drive them, shifting gear, dipping the clutch, blipping the accelerator as I changed down the box...........

I remember saying to my father at the age of 16 that I wanted a P4 as a first car, at that time a good condition P4 cost around £100.
I was told it would be too expensive to run and to this day I have never driven in a P4
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[Uncle Joe]

One of the good things about this forum is that there is such a wide age difference between members. It only goes to prove that age doesnt matter...

[47p2]

[Uncle Joe]

If you are only as old as you feel, why am I still alive at 150?

[Craig]

I'm 24 and have a rodded and a stock E494A. As for it "not being built for modern engines" i think your mistaken. No you wouldn't put a red top (2ltr Vauxhall engine) in a stock Ford Pop as you'd be picking up axle parts for the rest of the day. You modify everything else such as the chassis, suspension, trans etc.

I do like driving the stock Anglia BUT on modern roads in modern traffic it's not much fun.

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[Greeney in France]

[Job-Rated]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add I'm 45 going on 16....

A neighbour of ours had a 428 Mustang in red with a black hood - the sound it made just turned me on...at the tender age of about 12!
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