I find when I reflect on those bedroom wall car pinups of my youth, that not only has more modern car design and driving experience become increasingly removed from my youthful experiences and expectations, that I also have moved on in my needs and wants in driving a car these days, in a very different driving landscape today compared with my youth.
Too often back in the day when we couldn't afford the car of our dreams, we would absorb all the motoring journalists material often waxing lyrical of the driving experience of the said pin up car, creating this image of the driving experience, which many years on we often found to be somewhat economical in roundness and completeness of the total driving experience, often leading to a crestfallen disappointment when eventually achieving that boyhood dream.
When in reality a well maintained classic hasn't really changed in the intervening period, if it was a pig to drive when new, it most likely still is now, and often it is us or our expectations that evolve and change over time and the car basically remains as it was, often over hyped by journalistic hyperbole in its day.
Then again, with the passage of time I tend to wear increasing rose tinted glasses when relating to the driving experiences certain cars gave me often many decades ago, as we in part try to relive our youth.
Some things you shouldn't visit/revisit as the first/ second time around often disappoints. as we build up an expectation that can rarely truly be realised.
