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Originally Posted by slow&rusty
What do you guys consider as the cut-off year for "vintage" ?
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Also perhaps define supercar...
From a younger perspective it is hard to consider cars much before the Ferrari F40 to be super.
The Jaguar XJ220, Jaguar XJR-15, McLaren F1, Bugatti EB110, Ferrari F40, Vector W8, Porsche 959, etc, these were supercars.
From WWII onwards for the first decades after WWII the regulation of street cars did not exist much beyond perhaps a requirement for signal lights. A very different landscape from the days of the cars I just listed. Your sports cars were street legal, your street cars could be tuned up to be sports cars.
It is only because of the delineation of true sports cars that were not street legal that a separate term was needed for street cars capable of similar feats as true sports cars. Hence the term super car, a car capable of being both street legal and top of the day performance.
Prior to the differentiation of non street legal sports cars I had not noticed the term supercar being used in period. I could be wrong on this.