Update forum description?

[rmackay]

When was the forum description last updated? It says 1979 and older. However, I believe the official distinction for vintage is 25 yrs or older. If correct, then the forum should be udpated to say 1983 and older (since 1983 cars are mostly made in 1982).

Thoughts?

[Adenauer]

Actually, I have sort of wondered why categories aren't simply broken down according to chassis number. It would seem that relevance to thread topics would be so much more "compartmentalized" and would thus, make searching for past thread topics on a given chassis about a thousand times easier - ie. got a question about a 1964 300SE finner? It goes under the section called W111. Want to confine your search to something Pagoda related? Select the W113 section in the search utility. It would make parsing that much more relevant and meaningful.

And honestly, to me, vintage would really refer to anything prior to say, 1973-76 when the 116, 107, and 123 ushered-in the modern era largely because the follow-on designs were the 124 and 126 - which just are not even close to being vintage.

Just my thought.

[JimFreeh]

One of my cousins once told me that your perspective is formed by the year you graduate from High School.

Everything before that is old. Everything after is new.

My 83 300D still seems like a new car to me, but it will be 25 years old in January.

My 250C on the other hand was one year old when I graduated from High School. But I still don't think about that car as old.

I've owned my 64 Lincoln convertible for over 33 years, and it doesn't seem that long ago. I can still vividly remember driving it home.....

Nineteen seventy nine does seem a bit arbitrary though. Does not fall on any of the model series breaks. I'd go for 1985, the end of the W123 and the significant update in the R107 and W126 series for 1986. W201s come close to this breakpoint, as well. Slotting in above the vintage cars, of course.

Jim