Not the OP, but having owned a 30 year old car up until recently, I can list a few things I loved about it:
1. It operated on mechanics that I could see and touch and fix with a wrench, as opposed to opaque black box computers. I did not need a code reader to diagnose problems.
2. Thanks to point #1, I had the confidence in the knowledge that it was maintained correctly, the parts were good and soundly installed, that every bolt was tightened to the right torque specification, because I did quite a bit of it myself, and could visually inspect any work that someone else did.
3. Points #1 and #2 let me learn a hell of a lot about car maintenance and how everything works than you can with today's computers-with-wheels.
4. It was built years before every manufacturer decided to make their cars look like identical bars of soap, so it had a distinctive '80s look that you don't see much of anymore.
Sadly, the state of California decided that the car had to meet emissions standards that were far stricter than anything the original manufacturer ever dreamed of, so it eventually became impossible to smog. I had to sell it to someone outside the state and I'm currently driving a boring bar of soap.
1. It operated on mechanics that I could see and touch and fix with a wrench, as opposed to opaque black box computers. I did not need a code reader to diagnose problems.
2. Thanks to point #1, I had the confidence in the knowledge that it was maintained correctly, the parts were good and soundly installed, that every bolt was tightened to the right torque specification, because I did quite a bit of it myself, and could visually inspect any work that someone else did.
3. Points #1 and #2 let me learn a hell of a lot about car maintenance and how everything works than you can with today's computers-with-wheels.
4. It was built years before every manufacturer decided to make their cars look like identical bars of soap, so it had a distinctive '80s look that you don't see much of anymore.
Sadly, the state of California decided that the car had to meet emissions standards that were far stricter than anything the original manufacturer ever dreamed of, so it eventually became impossible to smog. I had to sell it to someone outside the state and I'm currently driving a boring bar of soap.