“That 89 Firebird growls and rumbles and smells like gas and you can work on it.”
Makes me wonder what good cars made after 1990 will be when the computers fail and there are no more spares. Electronics are only good for around 20 years before they become problematic.
I have an iPhone 3GS from 2009. It was the first iPhone with 32 gigs of memory. Still works but when I recently took it to apple to replace the battery and some minor cosmetic repair they wouldn’t touch it. It is classified as “vintage” in their mind so I had to find a third party repairer to do anything with it. A 9 year old iPhone is considered vintage.
I say the same thing about tractors. My Dad’s 4020 John Deere still goes strong at 49 years. Granted it does not get used every day. However, the ones today plastic and computer and expensive, we won’t even see them in 25 years.
I keep an old school points distributor for my 1970 Opel GT. You know, in case there is a nuclear war I can still drive