Funny...while I'm browsing the latest posts on the MC forum

[Luc Janssens]

I have the TV set on some music channel as back ground noise, and see a video of some girl group, way too much make-up for their age, but they're also drivin' some early 60s Buick Skylark ragtop, funny that so many music video clip makers, use classic American cars, cars many times almost tripple the age of the artist's performing.....

[MrObsessive]

Yeah, I've seen that too Luc! Just goes to show how much they value the old American iron. This is tough to tell, but can you imagine 50 years from now, someone doing a video (or whatever it's called at that time) in a Ford Fusion for instance??

It's hard to say what will be collectible many years from now. Back in the early '60's, 1955-57 Chevrolets were worth next to nothing. There were so many of them populating the roads that they were "just another car". Now collectors (even guys who are MUCH younger than the car) want them badly. Of course, the auto landscape will be vastly different 50+ years hence from what we see today.........who knows what will trip someone's trigger and what won't??

[Mike999]

Oh boy!  This thread reminds me of when the '59 Cadillac hit its popularity peak in the 1980's-90s.  Back then I was going to the Pomona (CA) Swap Meet every 3 months. The Cadillac section of that meet was suddenly full of young, annoying hipsters trying to buy nothing but '59 Cadillacs. 

Those cars had always been despised by many Caddy enthusiasts.  IIRC, a famous Cadillac historian refused to even put a photo of the '59 in one of his books, he hated it so much. 

Then '59 Caddys started popping up in every other music video on MTV, in pop songs, and even a Clint Eastwood movie. Prices for the cars and parts skyrocketed. One contrarian collector in New York had a collection of every '59 Caddy model, including the hearses, flower cars and ambulances.  He got written up in "Collector Car" magazine (which later morphed into Hemmings Classic Car).

Which reminds me of another Geezer Gripe:  almost every movie about a poor, struggling young actress coming to Hollywood shows her living in an apartment on the beach, and tooling L.A. around in a vintage convertible.

Here's what those movies don't show:  the rent on that beach-town studio apartment would be so high that Struggling Young Actress would need 6 or 7 roommates.  And IRL, that vintage convertible would have her spending every weekend in a less ritzy, non-beach part of L.A. - the Pick-Your-Part junkyards up around San Fernando and Pacoima.  

Edited October 8, 2017 by Mike999
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[Modeltruckbuilder]

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[MrObsessive]

Well, that's a '60 Buick and IIRC, ALL of them are older than the car!

That goes back to the early '80's so the car wouldn't have been THAT old then, but it's REALLY old now!

My how time flies! My birthday is on Tuesday, and to think that car would have been all nice and shiny back then!

[Luc Janssens]

  On 10/8/2017 at 12:34 PM, MrObsessive said:

Well, that's a '60 Buick and IIRC, ALL of them are older than the car!

That goes back to the early '80's so the car wouldn't have been THAT old then, but it's REALLY old now!

My how time flies! My birthday is on Tuesday, and to think that car would have been all nice and shiny back then!

Happy Birthday Bill!!!!!

 

[MrObsessive]

Thanks Luc!!

[gtx6970]

Back when, the spice girls used a 1969 Charger Daytona in one of there videos

[RancheroSteve]

  On 10/8/2017 at 12:34 PM, MrObsessive said:

Well, that's a '60 Buick and IIRC, ALL of them are older than the car!

That goes back to the early '80's so the car wouldn't have been THAT old then, but it's REALLY old now!

My how time flies! My birthday is on Tuesday, and to think that car would have been all nice and shiny back then!

Yeah Bill, I went to college with Charlotte from the Go-Gos, so that must mean she's in her 60s now - just like me, yikes! And I have a birthday in a week myself. It doesn't seem to stop.

[MrObsessive]

I think the youngest one in that group might have been Belinda Carlisle. And she's what-------------59 or so now??

Yeah.......time marches on!

[Lovefordgalaxie]

Spice Girls, I listen to their songs often. Have a CD that is old enough to vote. 

About cars, take a look at Shania Twain videos. '57 Chevy,Willys Jeep, and more can be seen on the original clip of "That don't impress me much".