Huw
Club Member
Also Ali, the sound of the wonderful engine kinda masks the squeaks and rattles 40 plus year old cars inevitable will collect. Take that throbbing sound track away and you’re left with a collection of super irritating squeaks and rattles. Where’s the fun in that!I’m sure it’s all been said before so let me add to the chorus:
For me, when I open the garage door, there is a REAL sense of occasion when I get “that” smell - oil, fuel and vinyl! Then when the engine comes to life there is a real excitement at the sound track before I’ve moved a millimetre. More than the speed and handling, the soul of a classic is the way the engine sounds, smells, throbs and gives its all to make rapid progress.
To me - and I make no apologies for saying this - electrifying classics is an absolute travesty.
But I can also see the environmental point when you see a steam train go by. However, much like classic cars there aren’t that many in daily operation, so the impact is minimal IMHO.
My monstrously quick 550lbft family wagon will eat the Z for breakfast but has that “operating the controls” feel about it as distinct from “driving the car” feel. So much less an electric. The teslas I’ve driven feel even more disconnected. Somehow electric cars feel like a roller coaster ride through VR goggles. Isn’t nostalgia and a step back down the sensory memory lane the whole point of driving a classic?
Or are we all just dinosaurs in our little classic pond in denial of the electric asteroid heading our way!?
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