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Tripper

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Ok... I admit it... I search daBay for my next, next, next, next project quite a lot!!! About 3 days ago I started to search & always select 'oldest first' & the oldest car it would display was 1981! 1981... are you kidding me!? What happened!?!?

BoB
 
It's hard to fathom, Bob, but 1981 cars are now officially "antiques." :eek: Sometimes I will be sitting at a red light in my 27 and someone next to me will yell over "What year is that car ?" When I tell them 1927 they look as if they have seen a Martian or something. :D

Don
 
We have a 61 Rambler we 3 on the tree I was talking with some kids and referred to the 3 on the tree and they had no idea what I was talking about.
 
Tripper;281601 the oldest car it would display was 1981! 1981... are you kidding me!? What happened!?!? BoB[/QUOTE said:
We all got older!:D. 1981 seems to be only a few years ago to me....but.....it was 31 years ago....Time has flown!!!!!! NSRA now allows 1982 cars into their shows......I guess they're officially an antique...[S
 
We all got older!:D. 1981 seems to be only a few years ago to me....but.....it was 31 years ago....Time has flown!!!!!! NSRA now allows 1982 cars into their shows......I guess they're officially an antique...[S

The NSRA has caught some flack over the year change too. Seems the older guys don't like the Honda boys coming with their 1980 Hondas.

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was going around a few years ago when the year change was made.
 
Ok... I admit it... I search daBay for my next, next, next, next project quite a lot!!! About 3 days ago I started to search & always select 'oldest first' & the oldest car it would display was 1981! 1981... are you kidding me!? What happened!?!?

BoB
It happens to me too. I think ebay is crossing wires and picking up something in the post.
I know for a long time if you search 1930 you'll end up with a bunch of W30 442's unless you filter by oldest first.......that is till now
 
It tickles me when a young kid asks me what kind of car my Maverick is, then when they ask what model, 1974, their eyes get big as saucers, "That's XX years before I was born!", they'll say. Most have never heard of a Maverick let alone seen one.

Ebay searches have gotten screwy. What gets me, say I search for Ford Maverick, I get pages and pages of BS car covers, headlight covers, nuts and bolts, etc, that say "fits". By trying to improve the search by showing you parts that actually fit a certain car, you end up with all the generic Chinese crap that will fit anything, not just one thing. And the multiple listings, geez, I thought they were gonna do away with those? A whole page of the same thing from the same seller, just because they get a free listing is stupid. Wish they would go back to a single listing, with X number for sale, the ad stays up until they sell all of them or the days expire.
 
I'm not a big Ebay user, but I do haunt local/regional sites. It would seem "old", "vintage" and "classic" have expanded in their definitions. For example, it's not uncommon to see an ad marked "Classic Muscle Car" followed by a clapped-out '87 Firechicken. Not quite what I was expecting, but I'm not a teenager either.

I believe they change up familiar sites on a regular basis in an attempt to captivate the user and force you down a different avenue. Some call it marketing, I call it frustrating.
 
BamamavEbay searches have gotten screwy. What gets me said:
I KNOW !!!!!! That drives me nuts. If I put in 1949 Ford I get projector headlights for a Honda and the line reads "Fits 1949 Ford." No it doesn't. How do these vendors get a product to show up in every car make and model ? :confused:

Don
 

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