OT, being old vrs being cool

A 20 year old has reasons for what he does that a pair of Burmuda short, black socks and sandals isn't going to do for him.

 

Anyone can be cool regardless of age as long as you...

-Don't have eyegl***es from the 80's
-They are tinted
-You look like you have 3 pillows stuffed in your shirt
-You have not been to the dentist in 10 years

 

Seems a lot of guys change their style to stay cool while they're younger, then they just give up and keep whatever look they have then for the rest of their life.

I quit trying to keep up about the time I turned 25....and of course I was never cool, but now I'm completely out of style as well as being uncool.

I thought bookworms were called eggheads?

 

Being old is cool! After all the mistakes we've made in our lives, and to live to tell the tale, is the epitomy of coolness! ( I'm 62, goin' on 16)

 

Cool to me is only a state of mind and not about age. When I was playing the part of a biker with the other big and bad Harley guys I thought that was cool and nobody to mess with. Later I figured out just how stupid a life style that was and got back into cars and then old hotrods.Every change I made I thought was cool even if nobody else did.I'll be 54 soon and all of my life long buds are older than I am and have always been car guys. They are the ones that turned me to the old cars and to me that's cool. Their wealth of knowledge and know how inspired the hell outta me and to see alot of younger people really diggin the 55 from where and what it was to what it is and where it's headed ,well I think that's cool too. I use to laugh at the "old guys" when I was a kid when they would be driving Vettes or g***er style cars on the street.I guess I thought they were wasting their time trying to stay young and be cool. Now that I'm one of them, I don't really give a**** about being cool at all, I just want to have fun doing the stuff I love to do and if somebody thinks it's cool that's fine and if they don't that's ok too. Gotta rest now , my hands are tired

 

The essence of Cool is on the inside.

 

I don't know fellows, I've been young and now I'm old. Young was better.

 

Back when I was in my early 20's and just starting out in the custom car biz I made a point of befriending these old dudes that had been there, done that to learn from. When I was 20 I made a friend of this old retired bodyman. He had a shop behind his house where he did a few jobs to p*** the time. I'd go over and help him for free, in return he taught me how to hammerweld, do lead work, metal finishing. Always good stories about hot rodding in the 40's and stuff, in my eyes just a "cool" old guy. Had several other "cool" older mentors. Now days I seem to have a bunch of these young guys coming around the shop for advise or just to hang out and see my projects. The light bulb finally went off, somewhere I have graduated to being that "cool" old dude.
Best part is as soon as they start talking rat rod, they find out I don't think they are cool, they start asking what is, I start talking traditional, I'm making converts!

 

I'm 29, gave up on the whole cool thing the day I started...It didn't work then, it won't work now..haha. I also learned to shut my trap and listen at a very early age as well..so, start spilling guys..haha

 

Amen, Mr. Rich Rogers

But I still ride and my Ray Bans work better than anything.

K

 

I'm 61, and being cool in other folks eyes has not been important to me since my early twenties. It isn't important in any measurable way.

Uncool older folks complain about health, etc. They don't do much that is fun. They neglect their life at so many levels they become a wasteland of ickiness. They look for decline and find it.

Then folks like you guys go out and set the example. Who cares? Have fun. Family. Build, drive, dream, look to the future with bright eyes. You folks have discovered the fountain of youth! You look for life and find it.

Bob...bald, not fat, can still do 20+ one handed pushups, like to work with troubled teens that I teach, and can still outrun most of them in a footrace. I don't work out or watch what I eat, but I'm thinking about it just to see what I can do. Life is full of endless possibilities. I'm starting up a Bonneville land speed project bike, for example. (1911 Indian) I'm damned grateful to be alive and enjoying it. Today it's going to be 70 outside, and I'm going for a long ride with my daughter on the Kawaski Drifter. Fun is good, eh?

 

If You like who You are You are COOL!

 

60 and STILL cool! Trying to be cool? You either "have it" or you don't....

 

I really don't give a rat's *** about being seen to be cool and I guess that is an age thing - sure it used to matter. Now it doesn't. I just do my own thing and in cars it is about timelessness, without being a slave to the latest fad or fashion only to find 'suddenly' it is out of fashion and distinctly uncool - where 'suddenly' is the years that you never noticed flying by. In my experience, trying to be cool is something you grow out of (although some never mature enough to do so). Trying too hard to be 'cool' is tacit peer group approval seeking.

Real Cool is when you don't care about being perceived as 'cool' or not. Cool is being the Fonz. Uncool is trying to imitate the Fonz.

 

I'm 35, and my confines of coolness has already changed from just a few years ago. A wife, three young children(responsiblility)will do that i guess. I find i dont have to wear all the right stuff, or spend an hour in front of the mirror just to run to the store. Function over form is my life now. My taste in hot rods is one of the only things that has not drastically changed. Money for the"cool"car stuff may not be there, but i still know what the"cool"car stuff is. I dont think you get uncool as you get older, i just think the difinition changes a little.

 

i know alot of cool old dudes. I'm sure they were cool when the were younger, and i'm sure they will be cool until they throw em in the hole. You cant buy cool.

 

Now thats what I'm talkin about...............

 

Yep, include me as one of those who belongs to the old vs cool crowd.

Age DOES NOT make me feel less stupid for trading my 57 Chevy Hardtop for a station wagon in 1968.

 

Almost 66. Platinum blond. And I'm my own man. That is cool.

 

Cool really is a state of mind, an at***ude. And as such its subjective and relative. I think Im a pretty cool guy cuz Im different than most, even when it comes to cars, how many 21 years olds are doin traditional stuff rather than import or muscle stuff. I graduated high school with a 4.0 and im about to graduate college with a 3.8. By by my outward at***ude most people think im an idiot, cuz I dont where a suit and tie. And by the way, some of the coolect guys and gals are older. old doesnt make one uncool, just a hell of a lot wiser!

 

I am 66 i was never cool never knew anyone that was cool. Knew guys with cool cars put thy were car guys. I think cool was a west coast thing. I'm clad it never came east.

 

Hey I'm 61 and still surprised every morning when I look in the mirror and see an old fat guy wearing my clothes!
Never was cool, never thought too much about it.

 

If I still had the bike ,I"d be ridin too but I couldn't afford to have and keep everything I had and that sadly was one thing that need to go. Now I have everything for the biker except the bike

 

Everyone will always be Kool. because of all the Kool cars YOU all own. and for just being yourself... and you all should be proud of your acomplishments.. theres alot of other people out there that do not have the gift as you all do to build a car and show it off..

BUT WE WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW OUR FAVORITE LEGENDS , AND BUILD THOSE ONCE REMEMBERED AS A KID CARS..

ALL YOU OLDER DUDES ARE COOL.. YOU GAVE US YOUNG ONES ALL SOMETHING TO FOLLOW BY..

SO BEING OLD IS COOL..

 

Getting older sure beats the other option.

 

I'm just glad I'm warm (98.6) vs being cool (room temperature)

 

I have never been cool. Thank God.

 

Old and cool are compatible. But getting old ****s. It stinks to wake up in the morning and everything is stiff except.......................................................

 

I just turned 56, that's old to some, young to others. I was never cool in the high school sense, and never really cared. I built what has become known as a bobber truck a few years ago because I like the way they look. Cool? who cares, but apparently it's cool if you don't like them, or any other style to bad mouth them. not cool. I hang around several younger guys because my friends from back in the day all want to sit around, look at things and literally trade medical advise! not cool. To me most older car guys don't care about cool, and that's cool.

 

BOY HOWDY !!!!! no pressure when your old (63) . already been there & done that . so now its just FUN now !!!! i agree its harder to be young now than "in the day" as they say now . (hate that saying) . we were just kids having fun & didnt know any better . only pressure was who was the fastest & that was only for a few seconds . i dont remember any "peer pressure" so to say . anyway , im sorry you young peolpe missed the "MUSCLE CAR" era ... steve .. oh yea , all the pretty HIPPIE girls too ..........