Does the Passage of Time Alter Our Perceptions ?

[68BabyBlue]

I will never develop an appreciation for those toads the Lancer models were equally hideous. I wouldn’t take any 60-66 A body for free. I have owned a couple and couldn’t wait to get rid of them. Yeah, they are pat of our Mopar heritage but to me, they are just plain ugly.

I feel your pain. My dad had perhaps the worst taste in Mopars of anyone I've encountered, both then and now. We had a 1960 Valiant, which was the first car I ever drove. My friends would heckle me mercilessly whenever they saw it. Dad truly believed it would someday be an art deco type classic. That car was preceded by a 1953 Plymouth Suburban, and followed by two Plymouth Voyager mini-vans. If he were alive today, he would probably love the Scion and Nissan cube things. I was adopted, which may explain why I prefer late '60s B bodies. My biological family tree shares Scotch/German genes with the North Carolina moonshiners. Nature seems to have trumped nurture in my case.

 

[barbee6043]

I will never develop an appreciation for those toads the Lancer models were equally hideous. I wouldn’t take any 60-66 A body for free. I have owned a couple and couldn’t wait to get rid of them. Yeah, they are pat of our Mopar heritage but to me, they are just plain ugly.

My wife could have choose just about any model, she loves the "unique" look of her 62 Lancer! No she is not insane!!LOL
It might be ugly but I like it also. I much rather tool down the road and call self cool with the Toad than a $60000 69 Charger RT. Been there, done that back when they were $1500!! I rather have that $60000 in cash!! LOL

 

[Photon440]

I think I'd happily take a free '66, especially if the top went down.

 

[Cranky]

My dad bought a new 69 New Yorker and the cool thing about it was the 440 engine and the more I drove it, the better I liked it but, it was a 4 door and being 18, 4 doors meant family car. Didn't really hate the car but really didn't like it that much because of that. In 74 he bought a 2 dr barge and wow, what a change that was but it had that pillow looking top on it. Gee dad. One of these days you'll get it right lol.

Funny how he bought mom a 56 Belvedere Sports Coupe that was a 2 dr and I liked that one a lot. Pink and white thou but it was the going colors back then on a lot of things but only saw one other car like it in town. Some woman had parked behind it downtown and when we come out of the store we were in, she was in ours trying to make the key work. Never thought about what if it had worked?

And dad almost bought a 62 Lancer late in the year until he saw a 63 Dart. Seems like I remember him saying "I just don't like that damn fake spare tire thing on the trunk lid" and I didn't really like it either. Good move on that one dad

 

[Budnicks]

The nostalgia of it/them, takes us all back...

To way better times, when we all had dreams...
young(er) dumb(er) & full of ----

Cars & women were in most...

 

[Ron H]

Over the decades my preference for cars back when hasn’t changed much; my favorite cars then are still the same now. Most, not all, of the cars I didn’t like then that were coming out by the mid-70’s I still don’t like today. Thought it was sad what the big-3 did to their muscle and pony cars such as the stang, GTO, 442, Nova, etc but of course, emissions and safety mandates had much to do with it. My folks had some cool cars, they liked the early T-Birds up to ’66, a ’63 GP, ’65 GTO, etc. though not mopars. Somehow I was a serious fan of mopars anyway since I was knee-high. First car I bought was a ’67 GTO, next a ’70 GP (bought it from my brother keeping it about 6 months), then a ’70 Cuda. Next a ’73 Challenger I bought as a demo in ’74. IMO, the Cuda and Challenger retained their body style anyway until their end as some other cars had morphed badly by then. Yeah, as much as I’ve changed my mind on many things, the cars I liked and didn't back when hasn’t changed much.

 

[moparedtn]

I do have occasional conversations with 16 year old me...and we're good.

Quote of the day right there.

 

[Cranky]

Of the Mopars, the 1970 Super Bee/Coronet looked kinda ugly to me....just didn't like that front end but now a days, it doesn't bother me. The 70 GTO etc wasn't bad but the 68/69 was better then it started getting ugly to me in 71 and went downhill from there. Just about any older car though catches my eye. This new stuff just doesn't do anything for me and it probably never will but by the time I'm 80, if I make it that far, it probably won't matter lol

 

[moparedtn]

Time = Perspective
Time ~ Longing for the past good times
Time is finite for us
I know as I get older time is compressing. Its appears to be speeding up.

Yep, right with ya so far....

I think I like green shag carpet now.

Ooooo, ye went a far piece past 'er now, din ya?

 

[Darter6]

I miss my 63 Valiant.

 

[Cranky]

I miss my 63 Valiant.
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That's not a bad looking car!

 

[Hilljack68]

It's funny... I used to absolutely HATE 1st gen Camaros. But now... I absolutely HATE 1st gen Camaros!

 

[barbee6043]

I'm now officially OLD and I see beauty in a lot of auto designs from decades ago I thought ugly.
I see little beauty in any modern car design. To me even the modern Challenger looks like an over weight fate ****, with too much make up (plastic)!! .

 

[fratzog lover]

In the very early eighties I had a ‘69 Mustang, buddy had a ‘79 Z28. I used to hammer him relentlessly about that generation of GM body being so common. One time we were in his car and pulled up to a four way stop. All four vehicles at the stop were those.
Now there are none and I wish I had one. Black or dark blue, T tops, four speed, 400 or 455.
Another buddy had a rare Pontiac Can Am. I think it was a ‘76, with a four speed. I’ll never see another one. Wish I had bought one and kept it.
AMC Gremlin? Hell yeah.
Didn’t like second generation Javelins but now they look great. Same with the last generation of Road Runners.
I always liked older, well maintained women.

Remember the Laguna S-3? On Let's Make A Deal and other game shows, I can remember them being behind the curtain. And thinking "who would want that slow dog?" I would like to have one now!

 

[DeltaV]

Yes, but I still like the cars today that I liked
back in the day; and the ones I still don't like today are the same ones I didn't like back in the day.

 

[Ron H]

Adding to my earlier comments later on cars? Liked a few years of the Doba, had a ’76 and an ’80. But both of those I had a lot of trouble with. Recall a hassle with the pewter command center on the ’76 and the 6 motor in the ’80 was a POS. Getting a new command center was pricy and got lucky finding one in a bone yard that worked as cash was tight then just buying a house. My dad bought an ’82 Diplomat w/ the 318, 2 door same day I bought the ’80, got to like the car and it stayed pretty reliable. As for later cars, thought Ford did a nice job on the stang when it came out around 2006; but later years don’t like those much.

 

[barbee6043]

76 and 77 F bodies rusted sitting on the dealer lot! hat dos that tell ya?
I have restored a couple.

 

[WileE]

I have found that no matter how old you are,your brain thinks you are still 18.

My (in)famous quote I tell everyone, all the time " My mind stopped aging at 17, my body's continued aging for 5 more decades"

 

[WileE]

I do have occasional conversations with 16 year old me...and we're good.

I'm a year older than you.

 

[Kern Dog]

76 and 77 F bodies rusted sitting on the dealer lot! hat dos that tell ya?
I have restored a couple.

I have heard that before about the rust. I heard about that with the Chevy Vega as well. I find those rumors hard to believe.

Back on track....I hear songs like this and they confirm that some things from the past FAR surpass what we have today.