I have resisted commenting on this car, due to the fact that it will rub some the wrong way and I try to avoid letting my emotions get the best of me but after watching again, like he said....Yes it's polorizing, but it's by how he's selling and portraying the concept.
First off, analog. Are you serious? His hands never left the steering wheel. Sure it handles like a 50 year old car, and he started it like my car, but part of the analog experience is taking a hand off a wheel once in a while to run through gears or understand what a third pedal is, imagine that. To reduce a driving experience to just jetson-ing around and call that an experience is disingenuous. Much of what current generations can't grasp as part of analog. Makes for a great anti-theft device though.
Second, history. Really? Preserving the exterior doesn't exactly preserve history. That is what grabs peoples interest, but once you see the rest, it wont carry the same history weight until many generations later. After I'm long gone, it's going to be very difficult to truly drive a piece of history. You know a petrol car that started it all for the 3 series in America, or any car from "way back then". The generation that still exists will only able to read about them, or see them in a museum and not truly experience them. You know like dinosaurs. Tell me your saving history all while throwing away what made this little car amazing due to its performance at the time is BS.
I am not one to frown upon a build and I truly do like what he did. His detail to keeping into what made a 50 years old car, 50. I can respect the amount of time and effort that went into the development of such a caliber but don't call it analog or saving history for your kids. It's a completly different car. As long as your OK with the idea that this is only way your going to have to keep a vintage car, fine. Sucks that this is what the future holds cause generations won't truly experience what started it all. Pushing out petrol is not the answer to being a car guy.
I welcome tech, but don't replace where it started. There should be a place for both to enjoy on the road.
Flame suit on but cheers to all.
Moe