Modern technologies in the automotive industryhave gained a lot of fans. Someone talks about the super complicated multi-link suspension, someone thinks about which horse herd is placed under the hood of this or that car, but few people can actually demonstrate the advantages of modern technology. And any old machine, devoid of all technological excesses, and in our time will prove its perfection. Rare cars attract their classic grace, but frighten off young motorists by the lack of modern systems. Drivers of the 21st century do not think of driving in a car without ABC, airbags, parking sensors, navigators and other "assistants." Now it is difficult to imagine that the machines that won the largest car competition in the 60s were the simplest rear suspension created by Count De Dion for steam cars back in the nineteenth century.
According to our contemporaries, old sportsmachines can not boast of the sensitivity of the box. It seems to them uninformative, hard and uncomfortable. But this is only the first impression. The experience of treatment comes fairly quickly.
And how goes the old car!The dynamics of the car is felt right away, from the moment the traffic starts. An inexpressible sense of speed, from which intercepts the breath ... By the way, about the speed. It is much easier to follow the movement of the arrow on the speedometer than behind the flicker of numbers. There was even a distinctive feature among different cars - a white scale of instruments on the car with a touch of "sporty chic" and black with yellow numbers - a traditional sign of sports cars of the 60s.
Compared with the European machines of the sixtiesyears, America's old car was more like a yacht. The long hood and the rather high-lifted trunk were a peculiar sign of belonging to a particular breed. Despite the fact that all the controls in the car were located in the most ridiculous way, the salon, nevertheless, amazed with its capacity. The rear seat can only be called a sofa. Sunset popularity of American cars predetermined the fuel crisis. Cumbersome, and most importantly, gluttonous, cars have gradually been replaced by more economical "Japanese". The remaining cars were saved thanks to enthusiasts.
Each old machine is stored in order toour time, at least at the exhibition, it was possible to raise the hood and look into the voluminous "interior" with a small motor, hold a hand over the bulging patent leather and hear the creaky four-track recorder with the eternally young album Machine Head.