Hemmings Classic Car

Desired Undesirables

“I guess as time marches on our tastes change, preferences are rewritten, and our vision of what’s attractive or what isn’t is transformed.”

Isn’t it amazing that when we look back on certain cars from the 1980s and ’90s, models that we never would have ever considered collecting or even owning, seemingly overnight, are now automobiles that we suddenly desire and would love to have parked in our garage. When did this happen, and how?

I guess as time marches

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