There are fast cars but for some car clubs there is an understood slowness to old cars: Some of them don't surpass 40 mph on the highway; sometimes they're unreliable and don't travel well. But for many members, their slowness harks back to a slower way of life. As children in a post-World War II era, some remember building their cars out of necessity. Some car buffs remembers their dads letting them and their friends search for parts in a junkyard — they were allowed to build a car. Most grew up with a generational love of cars. One particular friend of mine had a grandfather that had a vast knowledge of car history and his father had two 1957 Chevrolets in his Missouri home. Now, he has built several '57 Chevys, reselling some of them, and goes on every car cruise he can during the summer. He recently bought a Chevy for $1,000, complete with a smashed front end, a broken windshield and no seats — today, it's in one piece and painted cherry red. My friend said the goal often with his cars is to fix the mechanics and paint them, but he will occasionally leave the original paint to "get it roadworthy, but still leave it just like it came out of the barn." "There's a lot of people who want to look at the car to see how things were originally," he said "imagining what it was like back then." That's what can be so attractive to the people who remember the cars from their childhood and history buffs. For instance, sitting behind the wheel of a rumbling Ford, you're seeing what the car has seen over the years. It is a reminder of when vehicles were built to be repaired, not replaced, and although safety standards have improved, a time when they were easier to maintain. "Vehicles are a part of history; you can connect to a different way of life," "These things are reminders of our parents, our grandparents, of the generations before us and the technologies of the past — a slower time, a simpler time, that you just don't see today."
Loving the cars today...
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Nana
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