I like old cars and vans, the simple chasis and dashboard. I like their diminutive object character. I think they look “groovy.” They don’t have that oversized, aggressive, pumped up and buff Terminator look that you see on streets today. I ran across this old VW van in the low 100s between Columbus and Manhattan Avenues on a walk home from somewhere. It’s aged very nicely. The rust is charming.
i love the VW joke in Woody Allen’s The Sleeper, they find an ancient VW Beetle in a cave all covered in cobwebs, it’s been abandoned there for years…and it starts first time.
very to the point and hilarious!
I also like seeing old cars, but certainly not driving them! I’ll try to find a scan for you (will post on my blog) – of an old Russian Chayka car, parked near to Patriarshskie prudi – where Bulgakov placed the opening scene of ‘Master and Margarita’ 😉