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View Poll Results: Are owners who drive and value old cars seen as bottom feeders and giggled at? | |||
Yes | 7 | 10.14% | |
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This thread is stupid but I like the Potato! | 43 | 62.32% | |
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12-09-2014, 10:30 AM | #1 | ||
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its the best time of week.. after a hard slog its time to polish it off with a hulk thread to ease you into your first beer.
Are we the only ones who value old cars? (along with our GM brothers).. Plenty of people on the forum drive old cars, e series, AU falcons and even b series. Pre-90s cars are basically antique models. But non ford/GM people look down at us and think he/she is driving an old clanger, driving a new car is a status thing and can be a little demeaning to be driving an old car. People would think "geez they didnt really make much of themselves did they" You dont see people buying old Audi cars or old Mercedes or old BMWs.. Its either a new model or your a pretender or a bottomfeeder in society. Also if your in a senior position at work, do you feel a little embarrassed driving an old E series or AU falcon into the carpark when even the admin girl drives a new car? As much as I like old falcons/commodores, im starting to see the light a little from their perspective. Are we the only people who value old cars and think we are driving something special? whilst everyone else is giggling at us thinking we are the bottomfeeders? |
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12-09-2014, 10:37 AM | #2 | ||
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I see people buy "old" cars all the time.
Just look at the Toyota A86 sprinter, Nissan R30 R31 R32 R33 Skyline, Datsun’s, Alpha's and the list goes on. Most of the management at my work driver older cars. Once drives a VX commodore and another drives a 2004 Astra, both on over 100k a year. |
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12-09-2014, 10:41 AM | #3 | ||
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That's what separates us car enthusiasts from the regular plebs, Hulkster.
This happened to me a few weeks back from my cousins hubby, a regular pleb. He saw my collection of old-ish cars, and said why do I have so many. I said because I can. He said I could buy a new car with the money spent on all my old ones. I simply left it at that because the plebs will never understand... BTW Hulk, another fantastic thread.
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12-09-2014, 10:45 AM | #4 | ||
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Why do you care so much about what other people think about you and your cars? Who cares what "society" says about what you drive. I think you are looking at it the wrong way, most people love to have a chat and to reminisce at servo's or at the track when we trailer our 44 year old mini around. If anything, I feel older cars are appreciated and admired more than new Euro's.
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12-09-2014, 10:46 AM | #5 | |||
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12-09-2014, 10:48 AM | #6 | |||
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Knew a manager who drove a piece of crap car as they parked at the train station, they drive a very very nice Audi otherwise.
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12-09-2014, 10:53 AM | #7 | ||
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also, is this bait and I ate it?
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12-09-2014, 10:55 AM | #8 | |||
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If thats the case you are hanging with the wrong people, I don't have time for people who would act like that and couldn't care less about what they thought.
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12-09-2014, 10:56 AM | #9 | ||
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12-09-2014, 11:05 AM | #10 | ||
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Well i wouldn't call an au a old car for starters, it's only 14 years old.... gees does time fly.
I would never trade my 82 bronco in for a new car, i love driving it as a daily. I don't car what other people think because i think they new cars are peices of crap |
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12-09-2014, 11:13 AM | #12 | ||
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There is a $38M Fazza and various other old junkers that would argue no.
This one is not ya best Hulk..or is that the best of the worst?
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12-09-2014, 11:29 AM | #13 | ||
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I`d like to think that my taste in cars wouldnt change regardless of my Job position or financial situation. Yeah if I was rich, I`d own a bunch of cars that I consider classics. But I`d buy them because I think they look awesome, not because I need to look cool or worry about what other people think. If I was the last person on earth, this would be cool, well until all the batteries started going flat.
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12-09-2014, 11:30 AM | #14 | |||
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Same with cars, they are a status thing. like buying a nice watch etc etc etc.. The non Ford/GMH people do frown upon driving old bangers on the road. |
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12-09-2014, 11:32 AM | #15 | |||
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i know the plebs dont really understand but they account for the majority of society thinking we are bogan rednecks with old crappy cars |
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12-09-2014, 11:37 AM | #16 | ||
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12-09-2014, 11:53 AM | #17 | ||
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There are no regulations in Australia to make driving an older car more expensive like they do in Europe and Japan.
So you will always see older cars that are in plentiful supply on the roads. i.e. what were the cars most sold in Australia in the 90's. Perhaps you don't notice all the old Corolla's on the road, they tend to blend in
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12-09-2014, 12:07 PM | #18 | ||
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Who is this everyone else? or is this a presumption
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12-09-2014, 12:10 PM | #19 | ||
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Im still amazed at how Hulk types. Maybe he has a secretary who types while he dictates?
Only reason I wonder this is there is no way in the world you could get this silly with only one hand on it............................... |
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12-09-2014, 12:13 PM | #20 | ||
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Awesome. I'm elite and value old cars, and all that time I was thinking I just had an old bomb.
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12-09-2014, 12:23 PM | #21 | ||
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Guy drives past in a GT HO. People staring 'thinking gee he didn't make much of himself what a bong head'
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12-09-2014, 12:39 PM | #22 | |||
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I buy nice stuff cause I like it not to impress anyone. This applies to everything I buy. Couldn't give a flying who ha what ppl think of me.
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12-09-2014, 12:51 PM | #23 | ||
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No, I think it is just him. I'm convinced he thinks life is just one big ****ing match.
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12-09-2014, 12:54 PM | #24 | ||
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This thread is ridiculous!!
Bottom feeder because you drive an old car?? None of the cars you mention are really old anyway. May be bottom feeder/houso if you drive a rusted out base model ill maintained rust bucket. I would not call a guy driving an XY GT a bottom feeder. Anyone with a job can have a new car if they want, just depends on how much money you want to borrow and pay off, for most people driving a new over priced and expensive car is a status symbol that they can not really afford anyway. Driving a 70-80K XB Coupe around, I don't feel like anyone would be looking down at me, currently restoring an XB Ute to use as my daily driver, as I rather drive that than some pretentious euro puss box. From the threads you start I am not sure why you are here, as clearly you demonstrate over and over that you do not have a clue about cars, calling cars a few years old ancient. How may cars have you actually restored or rebuild, how many genuinely older cars have you actually owned or driven, and I am not talking EL or AU Falcons, I am talking cars that are at least 30-40 years old, and decent models ie GT/GS style vehicles with some grunt.
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12-09-2014, 12:55 PM | #25 | ||
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How do I get Hulk status so I can troll everyone each Friday with immunity? All these threads are built on false definitive statements made by Hulk to justify Hulks position. They are ridiculous, untrue generalizations with little to no factual basis.
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12-09-2014, 01:15 PM | #26 | ||
Isn't it obvious?
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at 10am !
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I know when I drive my "old" Falcon, the last thing I'm thinking of, is what others may think of my ride.
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Not every wealthy person will drive a brand new car, not every poor personal will drive a ****ter. You can never judge people.
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12-09-2014, 01:30 PM | #29 | ||
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exactly
wtf do i care what people think of my car i drive it because i like it and lol at old cars like au falcons and ba falcons
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