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> From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of zoboherald@aol.com
>
> Vintage seems to have become a much more vague descriptor, although
> several have defined it for their own purposes. For example, The
> Vintage Triumph Register was formed in 1974 and, at the time of its
> founding until the end of Triumph production in 1981 (not counting the
> Acclaim), defined eligible Triumphs as those 10 years old or older.
> (All three Heralds in my family at that point qualified, as did my
> TR3A, but my Mk3 Spitfire did not.)
This all depends on where in the world you live. Here in the UK, "Vintage"
is a fairly well defined term for cars built before 1930. By comparison,
"Classic" has no such precise definition here, some use it only in relation
to prestige vehicles, or "design classics". Others (myself included) prefer
a looser definition of the word. In it's broadest terms, we would consider a
classic to be any car built after the Vintage period that is either
interesting, or typical ("a classic example") of it's era.
Cheers,
Bill.
Rarebits4classics
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