Labcoatguy
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- #Jaguar #XKR #XJR, #Saab #9-3 #9-5 #900
Do you think in 40 years there will really be as many Good condition, driving examples of the Geo Prizms on the road as their are 30s and 40s ford coupes today? (both very practical, popular and reliable cars in their day)
No, because back in the days of the 30s and 40s Ford coupes, cars were still a new and expensive thing (look at how many/few cars there were per capita then vs. now) and people were poor enough to treasure them as an asset rather than a disposable part of life. Comparing "people's cars" across that wide a generation gap is completely unfair, and is certainly useless as an argument for body on frame vs. unibody. If someone really wants to preserve a car for 60+ years, aka has enough money to do it, it doesn't matter one drop whether it's unibody, framed, spaceframe, wooden, or cheese.