Heritage Styling vs. Retro Styling
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Time for a retro-rant!
Great point Darth. Here's how I look at it. Just think if in the 50's and 60's the automotive companies used retro instead of the great forward-thinking cars that they designed back then, which turned out to be classics. There'd be no Cadillac fins, no fastback Mustangs, no knockout '70 1/2 Camaro, not to mention the exotic C2 Corvette...if car companies played it safe and designed the "new" Model T or '32 Ford back then where would we be right now? Those were the designs that were daring and creative while STILL LOOKING GOOD. 30 years from now who is going to get all warm and fuzzy about a PT Cruiser or a 2002 Thunderbird? I think history will judge them as nothing more than ripoffs of the real thing. Classic car designs are created, NOT re-hashed!!!
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Re: Time for a retro-rant!
Originally posted by Z28Wilson
Great point Darth. Here's how I look at it. Just think if in the 50's and 60's the automotive companies used retro instead of the great forward-thinking cars that they designed back then, which turned out to be classics. There'd be no Cadillac fins, no fastback Mustangs, no knockout '70 1/2 Camaro, not to mention the exotic C2 Corvette...if car companies played it safe and designed the "new" Model T or '32 Ford back then where would we be right now? Those were the designs that were daring and creative while STILL LOOKING GOOD. 30 years from now who is going to get all warm and fuzzy about a PT Cruiser or a 2002 Thunderbird? I think history will judge them as nothing more than ripoffs of the real thing. Classic car designs are created, NOT re-hashed!!!
Great point Darth. Here's how I look at it. Just think if in the 50's and 60's the automotive companies used retro instead of the great forward-thinking cars that they designed back then, which turned out to be classics. There'd be no Cadillac fins, no fastback Mustangs, no knockout '70 1/2 Camaro, not to mention the exotic C2 Corvette...if car companies played it safe and designed the "new" Model T or '32 Ford back then where would we be right now? Those were the designs that were daring and creative while STILL LOOKING GOOD. 30 years from now who is going to get all warm and fuzzy about a PT Cruiser or a 2002 Thunderbird? I think history will judge them as nothing more than ripoffs of the real thing. Classic car designs are created, NOT re-hashed!!!
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