I as well (1981) favor things with an aged apearance. Take a look at a modern road bike. These new ergodynamic fame shapes may be all well and good, but it detracts from the lines of a classic road bike.

I don't know why, and I don't really try to reason it out, but I like things made from before my birth and around that time. I love old Toyota Land Cruisers. I love International Scouts. I love the lines of the C&V bikes I see on this site. I love my dad's old brushed metal Sony stereo set, complete with the wood cabnet speaker stacks. I love old camera's for their sound, weight, make-up. I love good vintage tee-shirts from the thriftstore. I love looking around in thriftstores for the old kitchenware and such.

Truely, things of decades past have more "character".

I may not be old enough to have been part of the era's depicted in these pictures, but had the right ideas.