Originally Posted by
jebejava
.. Are you a vintage Saab fan too? My sweetheart was a 1970 Saab 95....
sorry to disabuse you all, it sounds hostile, but I am really past the age of caring.
Vintage cars were built before 1931. Period. End of definition.
A 1970s Saab or Porsche is not vintage. That is an absolute.
A 1941 Cadillac is not vintage.
You can call the Cadillac Post-vintage, 'cos it is.
Call the 60s Triumphs or the 70s Porsches/Saabs 'classics' but the one thing they are most definitely not is VINTAGE
As for 1980s and 90s Mazdas, well, sorry guys, I dunno. NZ teenagers call them 'old school' which in itself is a form of irony or oxymorony, I don't know which. But, again, they are most certainly NOT vintage
I am sounding like a certain esteemed member when we had a similar discussion over the term 'Path Racer', and I know Picchio will take that as a compliment, because he was right and I am right
this is a vintage car..
http://www.jonathan-wood.co.uk/html/_0.html