Vintage car?
Reader question:
What is a “vintage car”? Is it the equivalent of “classic car”?
My comments:
Yeah, a vintage car is a classic in the sense that it's old (and good) unless of course if you're talking about one of those old car fanatics, or if you like, connoisseurs.
To the old-car collector, there might be a difference between a Vintage car and a Classic car, but first, definitions for vintage.
Vintage is originally a term from wine-making, referring to a particular year's harvest of a particular grape used in bottling a particular wine. Usually only good-year crops are used to make vintage wine, which often uses an exclusive crop. Presumably in a bad year, say, a year hit by natural disasters, when crops in general are of poor quality, wine makers have to mix up different crops to produce a mixed-crop wine. In other words, mass production.
In short, vintage implies good quality (as older wine often tastes better).
Henceforth when people talk about a vintage film or vintage performance, they mean to say it's typically good. For example, when a critic talks about Annie Hall and Manhattan as vintage Woody Allen films, they like the films. Or if critics say Jet Li gives another vintage performance in Huo Yuan Jia, they're giving the actor the nod – the approval is likewise implicit.
With old-age cars, however, a Vintage car might be different from a Classic car. When they talk about old automobiles, car fans in America, for example, tend to view the 1920s as the Vintage Era whereas the Classic Era as coming after World War II, that is, post-1945.
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