Dale Jr is so cool. I rarely think i could be good mates with any famous racers but he could just be another one of my friends by the way he comes across, normal and humble
I wish I could afford literally any of these cars. I can't even afford one wheel of one of them. I hope it becomes more of a thing that companies build new cars using the same old chassis, so that they look exactly the same as the original cars do, on the outside, but under the hood use brand new modern engines and gearboxes etc. So that they'll last much longer. Obviously a few independent small companies do this, there's a few dotted around here and there around the world, but what'd be cooler is if the big manufacturers who made these cars decades ago, would bring them back in this way, using the cool ass shapes of these cars but with modern engines etc under the hood.
But I imagine they're probably not allowed to, because of safety reasons. Modern cars are designed to make it less likely that someone will die from being run over by one of them, and the driver inside will be less likely to die if they have a crash or someone drives into them. And safety is the most important thing, so fair enough, I agree with those laws. I'm just wondering if perhaps the laws can be bent just a little to allow cars that were previously legal to make brand new ones decades ago, even though they wouldn't be legal now, as long as they were made as safe as possible. Like modern cars are designed to crumple up easily so that the impact of the crash goes into the car and not into someone's neck and skull. Dale Jr obviously knows how important that is, because of how his dad died. These retro cars weren't designed to be able to do that, and so if made brand new today they wouldn't be legal.
But you could design them inside to be way more like a modern car, put the metal bits underneath in at all different angles to how the original cars did, so that they look the same on the outside but underneath they're designed to crumple and so be safe and legal to sell brand new today.
It'd be a lot of work to do that, but let's be honest, who wouldn't want to buy a brand new road legal muscle car or truck that looks identical to these old classics? You could even make electric versions, for those who want to reduce their pollution or even those who simply want to pay less to "fill up" their car cos charging a battery is much cheaper than buying petrol (gas). Companies like Ford and Jeep are already doing this, with their new models every year, where they'll release a traditional ICE (internal combustion engine) one, and an electric one, at the same time, that look identical on the outside and even mostly the same on the inside, but how the engine works and is powered is completely different. So it'd be cool to make the same sort of thing but for classic models.
I just think that so many people would buy a classic looking muscle car or classic truck, but with a new modern engine and gearbox etc underneath, if they could afford them. But since the companies that do that are all very small, they don't have economy of scale and so it's quite a hell of a lot of money to buy one of those. But the big car companies, the ones who made these cars in the first place in the 60s and 70s, could do this and make it way way cheaper, and so I think these new-retro models of cars would outsell their modern models of cars. Because cars these days all sorts just look identical to each other, within the same type of car. Like every SUV looks like every other SUV, every sedan looks like every other sedan. If you removed the badges and the names off of these cars, then the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to tell which is which, and definitely wouldn't be able to name the brand of any of them. It'd be like trying to find and recognise the criminal in a police line-up where everyone in the lineup are identical quintuplets, criminal included.
So there's surely enough of a market there, people who love classic cars but can't afford either a real one or one of the ones that just use the chassis of the classic car but under the hood are made with all new modern engines and components etc, and can't afford to and don't have the skills to build one of those themselves, but could definitely afford it if the big companies like Chevvy made a lot of these and were able to reduce the price by quite a lot compared to one-off versions made by small Independent companies, because of the economy of scale. They'd sell like hotcakes.
But yeah they probably don't want to deal with the hassle of trying to make these cars road legal. That's probably the main reason. It's sad.
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Dale Jr is so cool. I rarely think i could be good mates with any famous racers but he could just be another one of my friends by the way he comes across, normal and humble
I wish I could afford literally any of these cars. I can't even afford one wheel of one of them. I hope it becomes more of a thing that companies build new cars using the same old chassis, so that they look exactly the same as the original cars do, on the outside, but under the hood use brand new modern engines and gearboxes etc. So that they'll last much longer. Obviously a few independent small companies do this, there's a few dotted around here and there around the world, but what'd be cooler is if the big manufacturers who made these cars decades ago, would bring them back in this way, using the cool ass shapes of these cars but with modern engines etc under the hood.
But I imagine they're probably not allowed to, because of safety reasons. Modern cars are designed to make it less likely that someone will die from being run over by one of them, and the driver inside will be less likely to die if they have a crash or someone drives into them. And safety is the most important thing, so fair enough, I agree with those laws. I'm just wondering if perhaps the laws can be bent just a little to allow cars that were previously legal to make brand new ones decades ago, even though they wouldn't be legal now, as long as they were made as safe as possible. Like modern cars are designed to crumple up easily so that the impact of the crash goes into the car and not into someone's neck and skull. Dale Jr obviously knows how important that is, because of how his dad died. These retro cars weren't designed to be able to do that, and so if made brand new today they wouldn't be legal.
But you could design them inside to be way more like a modern car, put the metal bits underneath in at all different angles to how the original cars did, so that they look the same on the outside but underneath they're designed to crumple and so be safe and legal to sell brand new today.
It'd be a lot of work to do that, but let's be honest, who wouldn't want to buy a brand new road legal muscle car or truck that looks identical to these old classics? You could even make electric versions, for those who want to reduce their pollution or even those who simply want to pay less to "fill up" their car cos charging a battery is much cheaper than buying petrol (gas). Companies like Ford and Jeep are already doing this, with their new models every year, where they'll release a traditional ICE (internal combustion engine) one, and an electric one, at the same time, that look identical on the outside and even mostly the same on the inside, but how the engine works and is powered is completely different. So it'd be cool to make the same sort of thing but for classic models.
I just think that so many people would buy a classic looking muscle car or classic truck, but with a new modern engine and gearbox etc underneath, if they could afford them. But since the companies that do that are all very small, they don't have economy of scale and so it's quite a hell of a lot of money to buy one of those. But the big car companies, the ones who made these cars in the first place in the 60s and 70s, could do this and make it way way cheaper, and so I think these new-retro models of cars would outsell their modern models of cars. Because cars these days all sorts just look identical to each other, within the same type of car. Like every SUV looks like every other SUV, every sedan looks like every other sedan. If you removed the badges and the names off of these cars, then the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to tell which is which, and definitely wouldn't be able to name the brand of any of them. It'd be like trying to find and recognise the criminal in a police line-up where everyone in the lineup are identical quintuplets, criminal included.
So there's surely enough of a market there, people who love classic cars but can't afford either a real one or one of the ones that just use the chassis of the classic car but under the hood are made with all new modern engines and components etc, and can't afford to and don't have the skills to build one of those themselves, but could definitely afford it if the big companies like Chevvy made a lot of these and were able to reduce the price by quite a lot compared to one-off versions made by small Independent companies, because of the economy of scale. They'd sell like hotcakes.
But yeah they probably don't want to deal with the hassle of trying to make these cars road legal. That's probably the main reason. It's sad.