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Originally Posted by Hoahao
Yep, and some variant of that probably extends to chariotsback in Roman times too. In cars, at least 100 years now... Stuz Bearcat...
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Yes, but it took a lot longer to raise that chariot or Stuz to legend when you had to press your thoughts into a clay tablet or send a letter to a magazine, hope it got printed and that anybody read it so things truly had to shine in their own era to be desired so much by the next generation. Now you can fall in love with a car by looking at thousands of them at whim, watching it perform (usually way beyond reality) in a movie or anime, think you know how it handles from sitting in front of a screen with a controller in your handand listen to 100s of others preach it's gospel in blogs and forums. The fact that you may never have even touched one does not matter as you feel you know it so well.
I know this reads as if I think poorly of people that like these cars. That is not the fact. I myself have a love of many cars I have never driven and never will. The difference lies in the fact I would never even think of running around spewing "these were the bestest cars ever" when I really have no clue what it is actually like. I have been a car guy for over 40 years and it is really only in the last 15 or so that I have seen the whole car scene go to this almost surreal admiration of cars that very few discussing ever even owned.
Crotchety old guy rant over.