[super7man]

Thoughts?

[43north]

I don’t think so. I would LOVE to have a Dodge Hellcat - at least for a weekend...

[HonkyTonkMan]

Ford GT

[2ndDivisionVet]

[cicero2k]

I think a few short bed, smaller pick ups of the 1980s may be collected, but not much else. At least the mistakes of the 1970s, such as the Ford Pinto were unique shapes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My 24 year old son has a 1985 Porsche 911 Carerra and does he LOVE that car. He’s hooked and wants to keep it to hand down to his son someday. Unfortunately, it needs a lot of work on the engine and transmission.

[Tired of Taxes]

we noticed that everyone there was our age.

To my kids, a car is nothing but transportation.

I've noticed the same. The guys fixing cars nowadays and competing in car shows are my age and older (50 and up). Young men today aren't interested in tinkering with an engine.

But, according to what I heard, today's cars aren't as easy to work on as cars in the past were, so that's probably the reason we don't see teenage boys anymore standing around with their heads under the hood of a car.

There are some remakes of American muscle cars today, though, such as the Dodge Challenger, which seems to be popular.

[a fool in paradise]

Viva Las Vegas (rockabilly festival) has a car show every year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYIwWVPzbYU

Austin has the Lone Star Roundup every year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HAjHW-y8w

I don’t think the camera work or highlighted cars in these videos is always great but there are younger people with cars.

And then there are the rice burners that get tricked out like the Fast & Furious kind of crowd.

Most of the others restrict to pre-1970.

[struggle]

[babygene]

I am currently restoring a 1970 VW bug. My choice was based on the availability of parts...

[hlmencken3]

There are more fast/high horsepower cars around than ever.

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/02/best-car-power-to-weight-ratios-feature/

[rdcbn]

We are in the golden age of high performance sports cars and hot rodding.

The cars today are blindingly fast and handle better than the best pure racing cars of a few years ago.

An off the lot stock 2015 Corvette Z06 can do a sub 1:30 lap of Road Atlanta .

The Hot Rodding industry is the most sophisticated it has ever been and GM and others are selling very sophisticated entire drive trains integrated to give hot rods and older cars in need of updated power trains putting out over 400-500 hp with perfect reliability and drivability - and 3 year -36 month warranty.

It's a golden age or at least the renaissance of one

[Kickass Conservative]

Pontiac Aztec. Next question. LOL

[factoryrat]

Rat rods and tuners. I like the rat rod concept of throwing together an insanely overpowered and incedibly unsafe lightweight ride with parts scavenged from the local boneyard. It may be crazy stupid, but it’s cheap fun.

[American Constitutionalist]

1981 Chrysler K Car ?
The opitimy of crappy 80s cars.

[hinckley buzzard]

Cars of the 50s 60s and 70s represent the golden age of the automotive arts, an age which has passed and will not come again. But their enduring appeal is nostalgic as well as artistic because back in the day, the average gear head could work on his own car under a shade tree with a few hand tools and without a garage full of costly computerized equipment.

As the boomer cohort passes these classics on to the parvenus of the millennium, they will cease to be objects of love and memory, will devolve into cheesy ego supports, and ultimately will become mere investments, valued only for their capital appreciation.

[yarddog]

When I was young I loved to race cars. Now these were not hot rods they were Daddy’s drive to work car and later my drive to college junker. Still we all dreamed of a 427 Ford or a 409 Chevy or a 413 Dodge then later a 426 hemi.

For many years I did not even think about auto racing then recently I was given a subscription to Car and Driver. Looking at those small engines putting out 560 HP. stunned me. Even little 2 liter ones putting out 400.

Of course I had a 65 Olds with a high compression 425 Rocket V-8 which went from Daddy to my older brother then to me. We kept it up well and it would cruise at 80 all day long and do it effortlessly.

I sold it at 250,000 miles and it still did not use oil. I replaced the water pump three times, the AC compressor seal which was something like a $10 job, the points and plugs many times and maybe the alternator.

Other than that nothing was done to the engine but as I said, we took care of it, changed oil and filter regularly. Greased it etc.

I just don’t think one of the new 560 HP small blocks will last like that and I bet repairs are very expensive.

[uncle fenders]

I have built a couple REAL nice vehicles.. completely by myself down to the paint.. and a must admit I have no real desire to do the super nice finished cars anymore..

If I do anything else I will be getting a really tired rusty car or truck, 1950’s or older. Then put it on a more current chassis, like a 2003 Crown Vic, I might have to change the width or length a bit...and make it drive nice.. but look like it was just dragged from a field..

That what interests me now.

[5thGenTexan]

I think true Hot Rodding is alive and well in the form of high quality kit cars today. Hot Rods started as custom cars built using a minimal frame and body from something like a Model A, Model T, Deuce Coupe, etc. They would strip down the car and shove in a huge motor from a donor car.

Now there are kit cars for many different styles that can be built using donor parts or bought parts like crate motors.

I personally like the ones from Factory Five; I have been in love with the Shelby Cobra 427 SC since I first saw one. They have a sweet looking 33 Hot Rod based on the styling of a Ford '33 coupe that is also tempting.

There are a whole lot of Lotus Super 7 replica manufacturers out there to choose from as well since you posted a picture of it. The Wikipedia page for it has a decent list in the links section.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Mustangs will hold on because they look cool and run like the wind.The Camaro is ugly and will forever be the made by the bailed out company.The JSBs will all go to the scrap yard.

[doorgunner69]

California and CARB have done huge damage to hotrodding with all the heavy handed smog laws, inspections, etc. I used to dread taking my 94 Mustang in for annual inspection. The inspectors used to look for anything to fail you on. They did not care if the exhaust gas blew was clean, all the little details had to be perfect.

I was glad to give it up and sell to a buddy out of state. The headache was just too much. CHP could and did run roadside traps some times just to catch smog scofflaws.