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Your car is around 40 years old. How old are you ?


Chamoix

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I'm 51 my car Prudance is a 72 / been driving her for 8 years only to find her long lost sister a year ago ,Grizelda ,who is one year younger , ones ugly the other is pretty . They both give me a hard time... But that's the way I roll !

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Well, I'm not sure why this old thread of mine got resurrected after almost a year, but I thought I would bring the statistics up to date.  We now have the ages of exactly 100 members who chose to reveal themselves and here is how we break down by decade;

 

 

<20 years old  =  7

20-29 years old  =  19

30-39 years old  =  14

40-49 years old  =  20

50-59 years old  =  17

60-69 years old  =  11

70-79 years old  =  3

 

Average age drifted down just a bit from my first calculation to  38.23 years old

 

As I said last year when I posted these numbers as it appeared the thread had run it's course, I think the spread of ages says a lot for the broad appeal of these little cars, and the fact that so many young folks are joining the ranks means this hobby and these cars will live on for many more years.

'71 02 - parts car with not many parts left

'73 02 - weekend toy and money pit

'74 04 - sold in '91

'03 325iT - for trips and bad weather

'03 50cc Honda Scooter - for my 2 mile commute

'06 50cc Honda scooter - wife's commuter

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<p>I'm just 5 years older than my 74 (manufactured in Nov. 73), 45 for me and 39 for her.  I've had her for exactly a year.</p>

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1974 2002 Malaga tii (Maggie): Work in progress, daily driver

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I was 27 when I bought my first 2002. A '76. New. So that must make me ... older than dirt.

'73 Tii - Malaga 2763751

'72 Tii - Turkis 2762380 - sold

'74 Turbo - silver 4290633 - sold

'76 Jade Green - sold

'74 Tii - Siennabraun 2781572 - sold

'76 Verona - bought new - sold

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I bought my first 2002, a 1972 in 1978 when I was 25 and living in St. Louis. My current car, also a 1972, is 41 years old. I just turned 60 in June. Photo thanks to the gifted Tom Jones.

 

I was filling up this past weekend, and a young kid asked me what year my car was, and I replied that it was "a '72." He then asked, "Do you mean nineteen seventy-two?" Yikes. I felt pretty ancient as I pulled away in my rolling relic...

 

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Paul Huber

1972 2002 Baur Targa in Baikal & 1971 2002 Pickup in Silver/Surf

"The more you know, the less you need."

—Aboriginal Saying

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