I guess you're working at it.

"The Old school definition"

3. Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.

old school
n : a class of people favoring traditional ideas/beleifs/items

so i guess everybody on the site and owning a datto are old schoolers Even dattos with new age motors are oldskool, just not as much.

i think oldschool defines cars that have got steel panels, and steel bumper bars, not plastic. i also think that oldschool shaped cars, are cars that have a body that is all body if u know what i mean as in no additional parts like body kits. flares and air dams fall under oldschool as well.

Old Skool..... let me think

when i think old school i think american graffiti james dean, leather jackets greasy hair rolled up jeans and white shirts. smoking wasn't harmful petrol was cheap every kid had a V8 rod and there was more chrome than there was bakelite. we have cars that are at the end of that era we had the carb cars that were thrown together are all steel chrome and vinyl. we drive the old skool cars.
yeh kill the ozone and we love em. i don't think there is any better way to describe old skool than that. yes Pro-240C you have a retrotech car Old beauty meets new muscle. then there is the grandma division and then the is the old skool bunch. the guys with the old metal steel carbs mechanical injection and lumpy cams to match the overfuel of webbers!

thats old skool in my mind using the technology of the age of the car keeping it true to it's age. and those that think that flat colours mean it's keeping to the old. think george barris and tell me those cars weren't built back then :)

Aaron

I was saying to some mates that I wanted to do an old school 1200 Coupe. My plan was bolt-on flares, bobtail, fat 13" wheels possibly beans or superlites, A series, twin sidies, rorty note out the back, original style black vinyl interior with sports wheel (black three spoke, ofcourse) and the colour couldnt be anything too flash. No metallic paint here, maybe black or that creamy colour that one of my coupes originally had from the factory. Chrome bumpers and wing mirrors, full chrome stripping under the doors as per factory. Its all about cams, carbs and cars that on somedays give you the ####s casue they are tempramental old cars. But old school to me (60-70's) may not be the same old school as my uncle sees which might be 20's-60's. Great thread!

Cheers,

Simon

by Team_Dat: thats old skool in my mind using the technology of the age of the car keeping it true to it's age.

Yeah, that sums up old school for me. My '74 XB Falcon is what I would term retro-tech. It runs a 4ltr OHC motor from a '92 model Falcon.

Ok..finally I'm putting in my 5 cents.

I think old skool is trying to fit the period for the car. If I was doing up an "old skool" 1200, I'd be looking for parts available from 1970 to 1982. Aftermarket parts sell for a period after the initial release of the car. It's about hotting up the car to it's "period" when it was most popular.

It happens that Dattos were affordable/alternative hot street cars when I was 16. I'm not so sure why kids today find them so desirable..maybe it's more than childhood influences.

Is it that these young fellas are the second generation of Datto owners? Do you young fellas have parents or uncles interested in Dattos?

Cheers,
Chris

One note of clarification...

Several have said "only using period correct speed parts". Well, then by that token wouldn't using EFI from a 75-76 Datto be "allowed"? It's period correct?

Personally, I don't think an SR20 keeps it from being "old school", but you better keep the outside stock looking! No body kits!

old school is taking something old and mixing it with something new, like old school adidas shoes came back a few years ago, however you didnt see people walking the streets in some 70's get up, they wore the same clothes just some 'old school' shoes, same thing with trucker hats these days and hip hop using old school beats mixed with new lyrics.
So therefore all dattos are old school, and they are to me.
My classifications are made like- ricer, sleeper, drift, circuit, modern (new wheels, seats, stearing wheel, full sick cream interior), concourse, daily driven, weekend worrior.
You cant screw up doing your datto up in an old school style as you are driving an old school car

woodydat, before you bash someone else, think about yourself:Quote:You're wrong this time. One dictionary was already quoted in this thread when you wrote that.

But ... just because it's in the dictionary, we don't have to consider the usage of the word fixed. It can be whatever we want it to be! There IS meaning if two people understand the context, even if we use the word differently from the dictionary. That's why they keep adding 1. 2. 3. etc definitions to the same word. English evolves.

Good ideas in this thread. It's good to hear the different visions people have when they hear the phrase "old school".