in my eyes any car that you dont see running around on a normal basis has reached a status where it could be considered a classic.

hell, late 70's trans-ams and ealy/mid 80's camaros were commonplace a few years ago but now i almost never see the late 70's style and i am seeing less and less 80's style camaros - i would consider the late 70's body style classic and the 80's style are almost there.

i DONT consider fox bodies classics yet because they made the same style car until 93 and there are zillions of them still driving around, although i will have to say i dont see to many 4 eyes

thats just my take on the whole thing.

 

It's all a matter of opinion. Given enough time, anything can become old enough for most to consider it a classic. The cooler the car is, the faster it seems to happen though.

Speaking of classic license plates, go to the bottom of this page to see cliff notes on the rules of each state. I put 1965 plates on my car a few months back, and it makes a bigger difference than I would have expected.

 

I don't know if the question was referring to DMV status, but according to the definitions I can see for classic, "it is a work that is honored as definitive in its field and something noteworth of its kind and worth remembering". You be the judge.

 

In a lot of states classic is over 15 years, and antiques is over 25. To me it's not so much the age, but the idea behind it. Just because something is old it should not be considered "classic". Some things are just old!
Classic is an adjective to describe a car that embodies a certain time period, yet it has timeless style...that's my opinion.

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kentucky only has antique plates which is 25 years old but if you get those plates you can only drive it sundays and in parades but no one enforces that law.

 

Texas lets you use the plates on 25yr old cars, but gives you 2 choices. You can call it a classic drive it any time or place like a regular car (that's what I have). Or you can call it an antiquewhich has the"limited use &parade" deal. The advantage of antique is that itdrops your registration down to something like $12 for 4yrs and avoids having to have state inspections or insuranceany more.

Eventhough I have classic car insurance and mostly follow those antique rules anyway, I wasn't about tomess withthe state's antiquerestrictions. Pushing the limits withthe insurance company is one thing. Pushingthe limits with the govt is a wholedifferent story. I live tooclose to a police station. If I ever get pulled over the cop will probably remember seeing my car enough to know that I'm driving it more than I should.So I went the classic route instead of antique route.