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GOLDMYN

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I took my wagon to McDonald for coffee this am. Young girl perhaps 18 says
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"what kind of car is that"? I said 1969 Dodge station wagon and she said " yeah, I didn't know if that was a wagon or a cruiser"
 
I'm up in Chilton, Wi now. we moved up here after my wife retired. We're only forecasted to get perhaps an inch of snow at best.
 
Just goes to show ya, the young millennials today don't give two shits about the old cars. Just about their phones and social media. I'm sorry but that was just plain rude. IF she was really interested in the car she would of complimented you on it. Why did she even ask what kind of car it was then. Stuff like that gets me angry to no end. I got a feeling our land yachts, (any old car really), won't be around in 20 or so years because of all the "electric" cars nowadays, and the younger generation not caring. Me, I'm the total opposite. I'm only 18 years old, turning 19 while in Carlisle and I love the old cars. The C-bodies now since I've known my stepdad. I've loved cars since a very young age, probably since I was 5. That passion will hopefully never fade.
 
Sorry to disagree, but I think she was just making conversation and a cute joke about a naval cruiser being that it's so big. My brother busts my balls all the time on how big my cars are... Do you have to register that thing in two counties? Etc.... lol all in good fun.
Glad you have a passion for these old girls at such a young age. Keep up the good work.
 
That 70’s show and the Vista Cruiser is what I think was on her mind. The fact she mentioned it says she had an interest. These kids in school today are taught to keep quiet and just accept it when the dislike something.

Don’t blame the teens of today for not knowing about 60’s 70’s cars. These young kids don’t care because they are not growing up with them. I don’t like it but it’s the truth.

When we grew up that’s what the whole world drove. Our parents / grandparents had the big family cars and wagons, dad may have driven a smaller 6 cyl car to work. The younger at heart and teens angers drove the muscle cars. They were everywhere and were SO COOL!

It’s just a different world now. I’m not in approval, but I notice what’s happening.

There are still teens and younger kids that are attracted to these older works of art so let’s help them keep it going.
 
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That 70’s show and the Vista Cruiser is what I think was on her mind

Never saw the show except for commercials. Could be, even so there was some interest there. She could've blown it off completely like most kids would've.
 
Saw the "70's show" a couple times. love the Vista Cruiser. I guess you guys are right, she could of said nothing at all. Teens today don't know about the older cars. It was definitely nice she said something. Just think she didn't say the "right thing". I don't know what I'm thinking. I just think it's "weird" that she said a wagon or a cruiser. It's a wagon, so it's a cruiser. I GUESS she was trying to be funny. I should of never joined this tread.
 
You are fine in this thread, kids today are “different” than we were. They aren’t car guys so they don’t know the right thing to say.

Yes that Vista Cruiser in that show was well liked by the all he characters.

Side story here. My friend has 66 chargers. My wife likes the car and it’s fold down rear seats and she calls it “the camper special”. We all laugh.

So we go to a show and she loudly calls a nice Charger the camper special and the people got so offended, I had to explain to the man that she likes the car and that’s a term of endearment toward the car.

So the comments can be misunderstood easily.
 
I usually get "I didn't know they made a 300 back then" but that's about the worst. Kids are like everyone else... They either like old cars or they don't care. I do see them take pictures with their phones quite a bit. That's a compliment.

I did catch a young girl posing next to the car at a rest stop. I hung back to watch (she was kinda hot) and it all was cool until she started to put that fine *** of her's on the fender for another pic. Then I yelled "Please don't sit on my car!" right before she landed... She turned around and said "I'm sorry" and scampered off... I think I scared her. I really expected to get some flack from her boyfriend and his buddies, but men aren't men anymore and they all turned and walked away.
 
I didn't take any issue with her comments, she was friendly enough when she made the remark
 
Just goes to show ya, the young millennials today don't give two shits about the old cars. Just about their phones and social media. I'm sorry but that was just plain rude. IF she was really interested in the car she would of complimented you on it. Why did she even ask what kind of car it was then. Stuff like that gets me angry to no end. I got a feeling our land yachts, (any old car really), won't be around in 20 or so years because of all the "electric" cars nowadays, and the younger generation not caring. Me, I'm the total opposite. I'm only 18 years old, turning 19 while in Carlisle and I love the old cars. The C-bodies now since I've known my stepdad. I've loved cars since a very young age, probably since I was 5. That passion will hopefully never fade.

I didn’t give a **** about flat head Fords and things my dad and uncles cared about in the 40s so I don’t expect “kids of today” to know or care about my car.

If they are curious and admire it, fine but if not, I understand.

I care about it because it’s an emotional attachment to my youth, not theirs.
 
Nearly all the today's kids treat everything as an appliance when it breaks get rid of it and buy a new one
 
Well . . . "kids say the darndest things", which can be taken several different ways. Like 40 years ago, we'd be at a weekend cruise at a hamburger joint. It was well-attended and people would come up a friend's 'Cuda 440+6 and say "My brother had one like that, but it was a 4-door". Or I got comments on my '67 Newport "23" like "My grand parents had one like that. It was a boat". So what the young lady said has been said many times before, even many decades ago.

In reality, a Smart car can be a cruiser, but not in the same sense as any USA luxury-oriented brand of vehicle. We also have to understand the cars the particular generation has grown up knowing about. Especially with name plates/models which existed decades ago, as Chrysler 300s.

So, best thing is to say "Thanks", smile, and let them walk on. If they want to learn something, then the education can begin.

At one of the weekend cruises, back in the earlier '80s, a 19-something guy wandered up and looked under the hood of a car club friend's '66 Coronet convertible (with '66 Charger quarter panels on it, which he grafted on as it was originally a rusty northern car). The guy obvioiusly did not know it was a Chrysler LA 318. My friend didn't miss a beat, replying "It's a Hemi". The kid stepped back and said "I've never seen one of those before", as he walked off in a daze. We just looked at each other that he believed that. Then, in the earlier '80s, how many teens would have known about a Chrysler Hemi (of any generation), much less knowing one when they saw (or didn't see) one?

Another time, similar thing, but we were standing next to another member's Hemi car. "What kind of engine is that? Canadian 318." Same reaction, on both accounts. That was well before we knew about "Canadian 318s", for the record.

Nice looking wagon! Even with the Superlight!

CBODY67
 
I'm up in Chilton, Wi now. we moved up here after my wife retired. We're only forecasted to get perhaps an inch of snow at best.

@GOLDMYN -- any chance that you might meet C-bodies At The Lake, in Milwaukee, after noon on Sept. 6th? You're about 1.5 hours north, so I'm hoping -- wagon, 'vert, whichever you bring would be great!
 
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