“The question is, what does make younger people interested in older cars?”
hile interest in vintage cars is frequently driven by nostalgia, with enthusiasts often seeking the cars and trucks they admired in their youth, it’s not always so straightforward—there are many motivations driving people who choose to seek out old cars. If it were simply a matter of each generation looking back at the cars they grew up with, today there’d be little interest in prewar vehicles, and we know that’s not the case. The question is, what make younger people interested in older cars? What is it that makes a person admire a machine that was designed and manufactured decades before his or her own birth?