there's nothing funnier than boomers at classic car shows seeing an 80s car and be like "tf man? that hunk of scrap isn't an antique, it's a used car. my ex-wife used to drive one of those."
>>29130090I assume that means Japanese Classic Car Show, but that's a USDM Accord, it was built in Ohio and isn't even a real Japanese car.
Depends on the car really.
>>29130090>NPC commuter car, but old: *soiface*
>>29130119even boomers will give you shit if you go to a show with a commuter 60s car like a Slant Six Dart sedan
>NPC commuter car :/>Japanese NPC commuter car :O
>>29130119Accords are an NPC box so vintage ones like the OP have a better survival rate than Civics which were all riced out by Mexicans and crashed into a telephone pole a long time ago.
>>29130132My old man still rants on about how shit of a trade in his old sunny was.
>>29130141last year i saw a gen 2 CR-X parked somewhere and was like tf? how did that thing survive?
>>29130132that was actually Japanese-made unlike the OP car (though at least those USDM Hondas weren't as prone to rusting in half like real Japanese iron does)
To be fair, those late 80's Accords and Preludes were absolute fucking peak automotive perfection.
>>29130166Absolute sex, god damn.I want one really, really bad, a wagon in that light blue. I'd take it across Europe
>>29130166they were so retarded that they didn't even put a flywheel on the 4th gear so the motor would easily seize up. that and the body panels were made from shredded Russian pants.
>>29130090Nobody at the show asked me about my civic :-(
>>29130162the Prelude was actually built in Japan, but USDM Accords and Civics were built in Youngstown, Ohio since 1982
>>29130227That became standard practice over time. Bread-and-butter models would be US-built for cost reasons and durability (as they didn't use shitty Japanese sheet metal and paper-thin undercoatings) while sports and specialty models would be imported.
>>29130233weebs be like but mmuh Hilux. from a business POV it made more sense to produce the Tacoma specifically for the US market and not have to do chicken tax-evading cheat tricks or have the thing rust instantly unless you lived in Arizona.
>>29130090once upon a time a 68 Mustang was used car lot junk too and a "real" classic was a 29 Packard
>>29130187Funny part is, always see those civics driving around like clockwork to this day, while only ever seeing the "antique classic cars" once per year every summer.
>>29130272They're cheaper to operate. A Civic doesn't have the fuel bill of a V8 land yacht. Big diff between 40 mpg and 14 mpg.
>>29130276Cheaper to operate, and doesn't require delicate storage.
>>29130187Yeah because it's a completely boring car. Old stuff like the Falcon and the Chevette and the Gremlin at least had the decency to be rear wheel drive so you could swap in a V8 and do donuts. Your car was built from the ground up to be boring.
>>29130276In the 50s-60s the baseline engine in the US was an I6 and had been so since the 30s. Only imports had an I4 and this was the case until the 70s. Yet the rate of car ownership was smaller back then and poorfags relied more on public transportation, it expanded considerably as subcompacts became more widely available.
>>29130122Those are the ones I oogle specifically at car shows to baffle the boom booms. I also ignore the typical boomer bait, and if I do admire a boomerbait car, I always play it off like it's a nothingburger.t. boomllinial
>>29130280okay boomer.
>>29130280i mean, a Civic especially a 2 door one would get some attention but Accords are just Honda's version of a Camry
>>29130283my grandfather had a used 55 DeSoto once; it had the original 50s version of the Hemi. he didn't like it because it was so thirsty.
>>2913028380s small cars especially Japanese ones were crazy good on gas mileage. Granted they were tin cans that got noisy at highway speed and were terribly unsafe and would certainly kill you in an accident but if you had a manual transmission (as you should because those cars were awful to drive with automatics) you could easily get 40-50 mpg with some of them.
>>29130283granted, Pintos get memed on but in a sense they brought back Henry Ford's idea of cars for the masses not the classes
>>29130292I'm 34. I just have some sense.>>29130293If your sports car is the sport trim of an economy car, that's not an actual sports car. It can on occasion produce something excellent anyway, as seen with the Lancer evo, but you can't expect people to give a shit about your wagie box.
>>29130283Detroit were targeting a solidly middle class audience back then.
>>29130319yes as i said poors used public transportation or drove a VW Beetle back then.
>>29130326Shit man, back then poors had to grow their own vegetable garden since there were no food stamps and whatnot. Lots of people in the 50s still had no running water or electricity.
>>29130122idgi. in Scandinavia we have a long tradition of collecting classic American iron but people here want sedan models. for some reason in USA itself only 2 door cars are accepted.
>>29130332>poors had to grow their own vegetable garden since there were no food stamps and whatnot. Lots of people in the 50s still had no running water or electricity.Why are boomers nostalgic for this?
>>29130090Met a couple of cool boomers over the years who made jokes about that making them antiques too. Most unable to grasp that time moves on.
>>29130351it was still a major improvement over the Depression, it must be taken in context
>>29130319I6s were the baseline/poorfag engine on American cars back then though anyone who's driven a six cylinder vehicle knows they can still be fairly thirsty, especially in less aerodynamic stuff like trucks. not as much as a V8 but still more expensive to operate than a four pot.
>>29130090I unironically wanted to buy one of these but Euro market Accords of that era all had lame standard headlights and so these are basically unobtainium here.
>>29130355In 1986 (year the OP car is from) 40 years ago was 1946.
>>29130288>I also ignore the typical boomer bait, and if I do admire a boomerbait car, I always play it off like it's a nothingburger.>mfw i loudly and visibly scoff at some boomermobile>he proceeds to fume trying to hold back anger
>>29130288wow, you really showed them whos boss!
>>29130122the general idea in the 50s-60s was that 2 door cars were purchased by families with young children since they couldn't accidentally open the rear doors on the road and as your children got older and smarter you would upgrade to a sedan
>>29130090you know how it is. Millenials always have the mental image of 80s cars being old beaters driven by poor people since that's what they were in the 90s.
>>29130122some garages who do restorations won't even take sedans
>>29130090>my ex-wife used to drive one of thosethe ex-wife who left you because she couldn't stand your bullshit and selfishness anymore, boomer
>>29130385Whatever unresolved traumatic childhood memories you have are between you and your therapist, anon.
>>29130384my grandfather had a 65 Galaxie but it was a 2 door
>>29130384>the stink of ancient 60s cigarettes baked into the headliner
>>29130384i think this is an actual vintage factory photo. it definitely looks like Michigan in the summertime.
>>29130384>>29130427boomer cars were scrap, man. i'm sure for a factory promotional shot they would have had a specially prepared Galaxie that had all the body panels and trim pieces correctly placed and aligned, which was usually not the case on most of them. buy one of those on the dealer lot in 65 and the "Galaxie 500" badge might be upside down or the Ford logo on the front is spelled "FROD."
>>29130436the Japanese actually went to the effort to ensure their cars were assembled properly, mostly because they didn't have a bunch of coked-up redneck UAW workers
>>29130401they were huge sellers though that along with the Mustang ended Ford's early 60s malaise
>>29130447Yes as I said >>29130401My grandfather was a Ford guy back then. He had a 57 Ford and the 65 Galaxie I mentioned, in between those he had a 62 Fairlane like everyone did; the full-sized Fords were irrelevant in the early 60s and basically just Ford employees had them.
>>29130436granted, Chevys were probably worse for Q/C due to the sheer amount of them. they cranked out 800k full-sized Chevys in 65.
>>29130453At this point the full-sizers were increasingly luxury-oriented with performance moving to compacts and mid-sizers.
>>29130453>For Saleboomers would be like "agghh no not a fucking sedan."
what was not prestigious back then were trucks. the truck division was seen as Siberia and assignment there was a punishment for screwing up somewhere else.
>>29130108>isn't even a real Japanese car.If it was designed in Japan, it's japanese. the Honda Ridgeline and Honda element respectively are just american cars. they were designed in america. that generation of accord is Jap through and through. the later generations that were actually designed in america are american.
>>29130090It's hilarious when some boomer car shows still try to set some sort of arbitrary date, like 1978 or 1982 or something, as if a 40+ year old car doesn't count as a "classic". It's like they still think it's 1999 or something, except when it comes time to price their cars for sale of course (while bragging to you how they use to "pick these up for $500")Meanwhile I'm now seeing '90s Corollas, Civics and even GMT400s riding around with "Antique" plates as they're now 30 years old. The future is now (picrel can now be registered as a classic or antique in most states).
>>29130375I did! I also fucked them in the ass later to further assert dominance!
>>29130384From the thumbnail I thought that was a Tempest. So much for the "all new cars look the same, not like back then" kek.
>>29130487granted, the AACA considers a car from 2001 to quality as an antique as the rule is 25 years
>>29130487I'm somewhat surprised that the ubiquity of ipads in cars now hasn't made that the cut off point in peoples minds. A screen-free car is a practically a vintage experience now.
>>29130487as anon said, once upon a time a 29 Packard was a real classic not any 60s iron
>>29130514Now guys that are into model t's and similar are having trouble finding buyers
>>29130147No Mexicans around to crash it?
>>29131034in the Northeast it's Puerto Ricans rather than Mexicans
