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04-09-2021, 02:26 PM | #29 |
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I make an exception for Ferraris. Specifically the 512 Berlinta Boxer. OK, I'm sure it's all the bad things I said, but it's hot sex on the outside. I'm sure it drives like shit too.
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For me a big part of it is simply the cost. The $65,000 paid for the Celica is a perfect example. To get anything interesting and in decent condition in an old(er) car now costs more than a new equivalent. I paid under $28k for my new 2019 BRZ (Limited, PP). What does $28k buy in an older car? These days, in the hyper-inflated Silicon-valley tech bro fueled bubble, nothing. $28k gets a middling MGB-GT or Celica in so-so condition, with stories, rust, bondo, and likely an oil-burning engine in need of a rebuild. If you want to get something in honestly nice condition, it apparently takes the $65 large paid for the Celica at the start of this thread. As much as the nostalgia drive runs strong in me, I just can't do that (I might be crazy, but I'm not that either 1) stupid, or 2) rich). For the same money, a new BRZ might not pluck the nostalgia heartstrings, but it's a helluva lot more reliable, faster, better handling, better braking, safer, comfortable, and did I say more reliable and less of a hemorrhoid to own? I'd love to relive my youth with the cars of the era I grew up in. But I'd feel like a fool every time I looked at it for what it would cost to buy one. |
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Now a truly old car is something different. I saw a sparkly woody drive up last night. It looked pretty sweet. But then such a nightmare to actually maintain.
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