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If you ignore all the nice neon and look at just the cars all you see are a bunch of similar looking cars. They all look like a Chevy Bel-Air to me. Now I am sure a 50s car enthusiasts would be able to name them all, but to your average person there aren’t any significant differences.
This is the same for cars today as well. Maybe 60 years in the future people will reminisce about the good old days of the Mazda Miata, Shelby Mustang, or Toyota Supra without realizing that these cars were few and far between and the streets were actually just filled with cheap Toyotas and Kias and Nissan Altimas.
Nothing wrong with that!
I always love the “cars all look the same these days” comment as if vehicles of every decade weren’t closely following the same design trends. Cars today don’t look the exact same unless you’re blind, especially if these people are supposed to be enthusiasts, so the other option is these people are just fuckin’ stupid.
One thing I will give older cars, though, is that at least they were colourful. I have a WRB BRZ(that’s mostly parked because I have great public transit options) and I feel so out of place not because it’s a sportscar but because it’s not a greyscale mass of shit rolling down the grey road.