You see, everyone kind of has me all wrong. First of all, I know all about what everyone TODAY considers to be a classic car. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about something that everyone who understands what really OLD cars are all about calls classic. This is a totally different thing.
What's kind of funny is when I hear someonre say, '' Those guys are snobs. How dare they say only their stuff is classic? ''
What everyone forgets is this club is nearly 60 years old. They started the classic car club thing. I didn't invent this, it was here before I was even born and probably most everyone else here as well. However, I do know what a full classic is. The owners of these cars also know. It's not snobbery, it's pride of ownership. I'm sure some people think that we MB guys are snobs too - it tends to go in different directions.
I was really hoping that this group would want to enligten themselve's a little bit and pick up some outmotive history along the way.
Just to sort of show you what I mean; the guys on TV that tell you all about the cars going over the block at the BJ auction have different names for differnt types of cars. It could be a Resto Mod, a Muscle Car, a Street Rod, a Custom Car and so on. You will NEVER hear them call ANY of these cars classics - they simlpy know better. They WILL call cars made during the late 20's and 30's classics, if in fact they really are, but only those cars. One of the reasons the general public isn't aware of these things anymore is simply due to the fact that so few of these cars are seen today and even fewer go across the block unless it's an auction only for these cars. In BJ 's early years full classics were a fairly large portion of the cars they moved but now everyone wants high performance cars from the 60's.
I tend to think these guys at BJ know more about cars than me and you. No one questions them about these facts either. They have a spot where the TV viewing public can call ot tex questions or comments about the cars going across the block but I've never seen anyone have an issue with the classic car thing. They sometime make mistakes and some very sharp types have a way of spotting it too but they're generally very right about specific auto history. They're paid to know this stuff and their job is to get it right.
So if people don't want to agree with me that's fine. The more you study history the more you tend to understand how things work. It's kind of like Tiffany; evey lamp for sale in the antique store is one until someone who knows points out it isn't. It might be old and it might be very rare but if it's not a real tiffany, you can't really call it one.
