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Originally Posted by YoungManGW
I have to say, all the comments bemoaning a growing lack of interest in, say, classic cars, betrays a complete failure to understand how nostalgia operates. As a crude rule, we all gravitate back to those things that were new or newish when in our teens and 20s - music, cars, technology, etc. - when, arguably, the world felt at its biggest and most exciting. A car from the 1980s may be thought of as modern by many on this forum, but is still 30+ years old, i.e. it's a classic to someone in their 40s or 50s. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
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Bit patronising! I
do understand what nostalgia is ........my point was exactly that. Young folk are not going to be enthusiastic and nostalgic about the old stuff such as valve radios and 1930's cars they cannot relate to them in the same way. I'm also not saying that more recent cars (some of them anyway) aren't classics but these things appeal differently to different generations.
There are always the exceptions of course.