just wopndering how old does a car have to be to be vintage..anyone know..i thought it was 25 years??

20 years in Canada.

then mine is vintage

(02-13-2010, 01:13 AM)velvetfog Wrote:  There are vintage collector's cars, and then there are old beaters that need to be pressed into a cube and go back into the melt.
Don't confuse the two kinds of old cars.

lmao

i've seen some of the old beetles here in the philippines. some look good and some look like clunkers.
i think it all depends on how well they've been restored.
if they've just had some tyre black and chrome cleaner the odds are it's not a vintage car. if on the other hand its been stripped down and rebuilt with pristine parts and brought up to showroom condition then it's vintage. as to how old. i'm not sure.

My first car was a 1957 ford 2 door station wagon. Red and white 2 tone with matching leather interior. Was fully restored and had a 351C.I.D. fully modified engine with a Hurst 4 speed racing transmission and a 456 posi rear end. Would pull the front wheels off the ground all the way through to 3rd gear. My father gave it to me for x-mass when I was 15 to get me to stop steeling cars.
True story.

my first was a ford anglia, 3 forward 1 revers. i loved it.

I rolled mine in a drunken drag race! Fuck of a ride.

i used to have a morris oxford which was almost the same lmao



i also had a great wolsley which had the same shape with a different grill.

I always loved to have a vintage porsche hy:



From 1971 ...

back to basics how god damn old does a car have to be vintage in around uk ireland..billy i thought you would have known that

(02-13-2010, 08:03 PM)DUBLIN5 Wrote:  back to basics how god damn old does a car have to be vintage in around uk ireland..billy i thought you would have known that

sorry dubs.
i'll see if i can find out.

here ya go;

A vintage car is commonly defined as a car built between the start of 1919 and the end of 1930. There is little debate about the start date of the vintage period—the end of World War I is a nicely defined marker there—but the end date is a matter of a little more debate. The British definition is strict about 1930 being the cut-off, while some American sources prefer 1925 since it is the

ok but where's the rest..lol,i meant does the car have to be 20-25-30 years old to be vintage

There may be a difference between vintage and antique.

(02-13-2010, 08:28 PM)DUBLIN5 Wrote:  ok but where's the rest..lol,i meant does the car have to be 20-25-30 years old to be vintage

a classic car is different than a vintage car.
the mark 4 cortina is a classic as is the ford capri.

a vintage car basically has to be an antique or classed as an antique.
in the british isles an antique used to have to be a 100 year old to qualify, now it's 70 years.

Here, antique is 20 years old, classic is a style of it's time that is rare and sought after.

(02-13-2010, 09:02 PM)Benny2guns Wrote:  Here, antique is 20 years old, classic is a style of it's time that is rare and sought after.

yes it would be benny. like the usa canada isn't old enough to have a real antiques .

except the ones they ripped off

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Old pic of an old car that I take out on Sundays.. Yes it still runs, very well in fact..


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57 T-Bird
so thats 53 years old...
It has whitewalls now. Power everything including the radio..

(02-14-2010, 01:58 PM)Scrufuss Wrote:  Old pic of an old car that I take out on Sundays.. Yes it still runs, very well in fact..




57 T-Bird
so thats 53 years old...
It has whitewalls now. Power everything including the radio..

i'd love to have a drive in a beast like that

(02-14-2010, 11:40 AM)billy Wrote:  

(02-13-2010, 09:02 PM)Benny2guns Wrote:  Here, antique is 20 years old, classic is a style of it's time that is rare and sought after.

yes it would be benny. like the usa canada isn't old enough to have a real antiques .

Well thats some pure bullshit there boy!
My second car was a 58 T-Bird 390C.I.D. , nice boat, I drove it accross Canada and back. That was when gas was still 36 cents a gallon.