The term ‘classic’ is largely subjective. Not only when applied to cars, either. There are wide variations in what people consider classics. For example, the film The Shawshank Redemption was fairly widely ignored when it initially came out, but today it is considered one of the finest pieces of film making to come out of Hollywood. Although the term ‘classical music’ now applies to a certain style of music, along the lines of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven in the past and the likes of Michael Nyman and Philip Glass in this era, there are many who would argue for the albums of the Beatles and some of their contemporaries, and indeed even a band as current as Radiohead, being eligible for the pantheon of ‘classic albums’. When it comes to cars, an equal debate exists over what makes a classic. You could ask several different people, even automobile enthusiasts, what they consider to make a classic car, and get wildly varying answers. It may apply to a car which was the pre-eminent example …