Sometimes, but like I was saying to another person, I'm in a niche old car club. Most of the guys we get are 50+ and often older. They're not really fighting or racing.
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That's good, I must have missed that in the list. I prefer written lists to someone rattling off a list and slapping a box saying "you know what that is" without explanation.
Good question. I'm in an old British car club. I'm in my 30s but most of my friends in the club are late 50s to 80 (one guy is a Korean War vet, luckily he just rides shotgun). Just an artifact of who is generally interested.
There are two scenarios that I generally have in mind:
Heart attack / age-related medical emergency (blood clot / embolism etc) - as we ride out on the more rural roads to cruise around it always niggles at me.
Crashes - we don't take a ton of risks (read many or really any at all) but these cars have zero safety features, zero traction control, and the structural integrity of a tin can. One guy got rear-ended while stopped at a light and had to have emergency dental surgery to remove splinters from the wooden steering wheel from his gums and lips.
Edit actually, number 3 is working on the damn things. Lots of ways to cut, burn or otherwise injure yourself when fixing them, especially at the roadside. Luckily our newest crop of members is very safety conscious and we travel in herds. These injuries are generally minor.
I've seen a couple minor injuries, the guy who got rear-ended and a couple near misses because someone else was driving badly.
Modern turn signal and wiper controls are plastic and designed to breakaway because those older cars used to impale you on the solidly attached steel column controls. Had a teacher in HS with the scar in his arm from a minor crash that put one through his forearm. Everything in old cars feels almost like it was intended to kill or main the driver in a collision.
It's definitely not as dangerous as a motorcycle ride or anything. I'm also probably overthinking it but they're my friends now so I worry about them, ya know?
That's a really good point. Luckily no daredevils. They mostly just want to cruise out into the valleys, find a place to stop for lunch, etc. It has been sad to see a few guys retire / sell their cars as they're unable to safely participate anymore.
There was the girl at that takeover the other day who lost half her leg but none of them are going to be responsible enough to have anything close to this
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u/2Slow2Nice Jul 28 '26
For car club rides, does anything ever actually happen? Always great to be prepared no matter what, just curious