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-Nate's avatar

" people who can afford as many electric toys as they want

people who can’t make a payment on a 2004 F-150"

Truer words etc., etc.....

I'm sure this is how we got to the fake patina situation that seriously grinds my grids .

I remember being loudly berated for showing up in old beaters I'd just begun to resurrect, now the stupid kids all clamor to buy my battered and rusty old VW I'm embarrassed to drive but I can't afford a $35,000.00 incorrectly restored one.....

As you stated : it's all about the _driving_ for me, I'll never feel young again but I certainly remember 1972 clearly when I'm driving it and wondering why all the others are parked in enclosed, temperature controlled garages .

They miss the entire point of being a gear / petrol head : IT'S THE DRIVING STUPID .

-Nate

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Adrian Clarke's avatar

You've very effectively summed up my feelings about this sort of thing. I've often wondered if it's my 'join me on the picket line brother Baruth' working class back ground, my inverse snobbery of always being outside the tent pissing in, or just sheer inability to relate to people who have never struggled to make the rent.

Years ago when I was a student at the Royal College of Art (seriously, I was already living the dream and never did I expect someone like me could go there. My talent got me in and luckily a scholarship paid most of the fees. I moved back in with my mother while I attended) we had two projects that let me peek behind the velvet rope. One involved the RAC Club in Piccadilly (jacket and tie, no ladies) and the other was Salon Prive at Blenheim Palace. I drank their champagne and ate their lobster, and I'm sure I popped a few monocles looking as I did like a fucking goth rock star.

Who is also taking his Mondial QV to Radwood UK tomorrow. At least I'll be there in something with some credibility, rather than something that has suddenly become worthy of consideration just because of when it was made.

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