I was just wondering what you think will happen to thirdgens 50 years from today? Will you guys still own or drive one? Will thirdgens still be around like cars from the 50's 60's and 70's are still driven today?

 

An asteroid is on the way...there will be no thirdgens. :rockon::rockon::rockon::sillylol:

 

I'll be 72 in 50 years.

I'm wondering if I will still be alive, let alone driving a Third Gen.

 

How Many 50's cars do you see on the road that haven't been restored? And out of those cars, how many have been restored? Basically You'd only see them in museums, or in the rare case of someone keeping the car in great shape, and doing the maintinance/repairs on it when it needs it. Though I'd have to give you props if you could keep a third gen up that long, thats alot of money, and alot of time.

After 50 years, how much of the original body would be left? ^_^

 

I dont know about 50 years, but I know I'll have mine for another 20 or so. Once I get out of college, get a decent job, my car is getting parked, stuff that I have ignored since its a daily driver will get done, and it will only go to shows. Only way I would get rid of it is if something major happened, it is fully insured and all ready paid for, so the only thing costing money on it gas, parts. and 99% of the parts going onto it are optional.

 

Hehe, I forgot that in 50 years I will be 70. I don't know if I will be living that long either, let alone driving. Ok, lets cut the years down in half to 25. So what will happen to your thirdgen in 25 years?

Where I live in the Summer/Winter Champaign, IL, I don't see too many really old cars. Here in Carbondale where there are a lot of little country towns, I may not see 50's cars, but I do see a lot of restored and unrestored cars from the 60's and 70's and they are not just pickups either. I have to drive out of the city to see them, but they are definately there and still in service.

 

Thats what I'm thinking...

 

In 50 yrs I'll be almost 90 and my car will be 70 !
I'll still be driving my Camaro while the ex-ricers will be looking at old photos.
If gas prices stay reasonable and cars don't switch to solar power or something, you can rest assured guys who enjoy f-bodies today will be out there restoring them for years to come with their sons/grandsons.
Look at all the 50's Chevys out there. See the prices...
Look at the Chevelles and prices for decent ones. The stopped making Chevelles when?
The young guys who were around in the late 60's buying these cars are out there today reliving their youth and poking about the car shows and flee markets.
Third gens aren't hard to restore, I for one will be around for a couple of decades enjoying my car(s)...
I compare the 55 & 57 Chevys of late to the IROCs & TTAs of today. Everyone's gonna want one.....

Pacer

 

I'll be a 71 yr guy rippin down the streets doin 8s in the 1/4 with my car.

 

LOL! Same here Mark! (Except I'll be 76!) The kids on my future street of my future house will be saying "uh oh, look out, here comes old man Tom in that ancient car that can't fly like our cars, and runs on gasoline! He's crazy!"

On another note, imagine trying to find parts for our cars 50 years from now??? I get Automobile Restorer magazine, and they've got a guy in there who went cross-country on dirt/gravel/unpaved roads in a '39 Plymouth. Where the hell does he find parts?!? Great mag, by the way, a bit costly ($30/year), but it's 90% tech, and although it's in black & white- there's NO advertisements!!

Hey will thirdgen.org be around in 50 years? Imagine us, a bunch of old men, coming on here!

 

same here lol. i wont be as old though. i will have my car 25 yrs from now though that is for sure. full resto and drive it very often - none of this put it on a trailer...

 

wow, imagine my post count then.

 

and then there will be kids running 3's in the quarter-mile with there new 'floating' cars

 

dangit, then i'll be runnin, faster than that somehow, can we say 20 turbos, with 300psi of boost.

 

In 50 years, there will be no gas stations, only hydrogen stations

 

You think they will make a hydrogen conversion kit for our antiques.

 

I'd rather have Mr. Fusion

 

I'll hopefully be around, I hope to still have my GTA. My 84 will be long gone and I would have either sold my Firehawk to pay for my retirement or I would have given it to my son. I think my GTA will still be roaming the roads and the Hawk will most likely be in private collection and not enoyed out on the road

 

no traction problems

 

Contrast cars 50 years ago to the new cars then have today......

AM radio Versus LCD Navigation system

LCD Navigation System Versus ????? ??????

Those damn tree huggers will have our cars melted down to use for building the enviro-safe complexes for the over-populated cities to keep the people.....

I'm hiding my car in my nuclear hide-out shelter.........they aren't getting mine......

 

In 50 years, In the year 2052, I will be 65, have 10 kids, and 23 grandkids. I will be bald because my grandma (that's right GRANDMA) is bald, and going to virtual bingo every Friday night! Or will it even be called bingo then???

My 1964 Impala SS will be 88 years old, have been restored twice (the first one hasn't even happened yet!), and will be owned by a Museum, because it will be one of the last ones left. All of us will have personal jets because they will be about as expensive as cars now a days. Computers will have unimaginable speeds, and we will no longer have dial-up internet connection (thank ***, no more 21.6!). Of course, new cars will be self driven (but what's the fun in that, right?) We will have been to Mars and further, and will have colonies on other planets. We will have made contact with the aliens, and will have them living peacefully on our planet along with humans. And finally, we will have figured out the mystery of area 51!

Or will it all be like The Matrix says it will be???

 

u guys think way to far in advance

 

i have no idea what things are going to be like 25 or 50 yrs from now, but if i'm still around my 84' Z will be right there with me if there still is gas (at a reasonable price) i'll still be running that, if not.. i'll have to drop in some other kinda motor that runs what ever fuel they'll have then
but we'll all just have to stick around to find out what really happens

 

Fifty years from now i'll be sitting on my front porch in a chair looking at my camaro and remembering how fun it was to drive it. actually i'll still be doing burnouts with it when i'm 67. :rockon:

 

lmao, i can't even imagine :sillylol:

 

when we run out of gas, i can assure you there will be a human made "synthetic gas", just like we now make "synthetic oil"!!!!!

 

Also, the newer cars that are electric are slower than ever before..... they are also lowering speed limits all over the country, i think the new cars in 23 years will more like run 23's in the 1/4 not 3's but then again theyll get like 2000 miles per gallon!!

 

50 years, Ill be 68. Still driving the beast, only by then it will be on another restore along with my grand national, 67 camaro, 69 vette, and my 3.8 turbo chevette (cars I will get, vette and maro are garunteed). My 2.8 camaro will most likely be long gone, or given to the first born male child.

If age is an indication of better driving, then my 50 year old father, who continues to do very immature things with his camaro, must have been a total @$$ hole driver 30 years ago.

 

My engine will blowup while I'm driving it....

 

It's funny you brought this up....because I have already SEEN thirdgen's in the future!





I guess that's someone's restored B4C.

 

I'll just be firing her up for the first time about then,if all goes to plan.

 

...which brings up a new question...how do you burnout in mid-air?

 

I was waiting for someone to post that picture.



You would do an air particle blow out.

 

WHAT IS THAT PICTURE FROM????

I'M INTERESTED....

 

I'll still have mine 50 years in the future....

even if cars as we know them become unusable or obsolete, I'll keep it in my garage.

 

hahhaha but all engines blow up. i like the pic of the girls.

 

FLYNLOW -- it's from an xbox game called deathrow.

devianb, are you an xbox fan as well? or did you just know of the picture?

 

NO, not an Xbox fan, I just remember seeing that picture. I already had a PS1 with many games that I still enjoy playing, I could still play my PS1 games on the PS2 so it's a no brainer why I chose the PS2 over any system. Its so funny that I made a big deal about buying a PS2 and how much I would be playing it. I barely even use it once a week, it is still awesome though. That will all change when GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY comes out. I loved watching Miami Vice as a kid and now I can sort of have a Miami Vice style Grand Theft Auto. YEEEEES!!
If there was a Dragon Ball Z game for the PS2 - I wouldn't leave my room.

 

haha........yeah.....my friend and I tore up GTA3....only 2 more days till vice city. somethin else to work on

vice city.....what other game can you walk around on the street killing someone with a screwdriver? yes...you heard me. one of your weapons is a SCREWDRIVER!

in short, it's gonna be an awesome game.

 

 

I wonder how rare thirdgens will be then?

 

I'm going to have mine until the end of time. Took me 16 years to get it and I'm never giving it up. And I'll tell you this too, no goddamn tree huggers of the future are getting their hands on my car.

Robert

 

 

quoteing it when he said tree huggers

 

 

tree huggers... where??? I could have an automated defense system to fight them off How rare are third gen owners gonna be... we are already rare!!!!

 

If I can spot at least 3 thirdgens in every little city I pass through when I go home for Holiday break - I would not consider that rare. They are becoming more scarce, especially mint condition ones, but they are not as rare as 1st gens or even 2nd gens. I haven't even seen a 2nd gen in 5 months and I have never seen a 1st gen in real life.

 

Its been about 29 years and my dads first 74 Roadrunner is still in the family. I plan on passing my car on to my kids.

 

I will keep this car until the day that I die so in 50 years I'll be 81 & still riding the turbo.

 

I'll be 80 & still riding the turbo