It's getting more and more interesting!
01/12/2021
Ever since there have been people interested in "old" cars, there has always been a debate about what exactly constitutes an "old" car. Back in the 1980s, cars built after the Second World War were at best second-class classic cars, because the "real" classics were of course sold before the war.
A lot of time has passed since then and nobody would deny a sixties Ferrari or Austin-Healey classic car status.
When it comes to cars from the 1980s, enthusiasts are much less certain, and the youngtimer or neoclassic movement is met with a great deal of skepticism by "real" classic car fans anyway.
But let's look at it another way. There are now classic cars from over eleven decades. The selection of classic cars has never been greater. It has never been more interesting to deal with old cars, because the variety is breathtaking. And every year, new vehicles are added that can be rediscovered.
As automobile historians, we can count ourselves lucky, because our world is becoming ever more colorful and diverse. And there are also new impulses from the present that often allow us to take a different look at the past.
Tesla's success story, for example, makes us think of similar events in the past, such as Borgward or Glas. And many a pioneer of the past is still waiting to be rediscovered ...
P.S. Incidentally, the dream car in the picture above is the Oldsmobile Golden Rocket study, which was built for General Motors Motorama in 1956.
