I don’t know about “deleting them from existence” because a lot of people seem to like them, and I don’t want to yuck someone else’s yum. But the Panther chassis cars were basically the same body-on-frame stuff I grew up with, and I got to drive one in 2010 as a rental, and I thought “oh yeah, this used to be what everything felt like” which was NOT a compliment.

I mean, I GUESS I can see the nostalgia and implied durability and simplicity, because it’s close enough to “almost walking” that you can see “walking” from there and marvel at the fact that you are not walking, you are able to go faster and further than people used to imagine possible in the “feet” days before railroads, where you could run, for a while, or maybe ride on an animal while it ran.

But to drive a Honda accord or prelude in, like, 1980, was to see the future - “can everyday cars be this sensational?” Because soon they were.

(The Fairmont / zephyr twins? Not great cars, I know, but we got a two-door one brand new when I was a teenager and it eventually became my car, and I learned to fix cars on it, and eventually drove it to my first job and to dates with my first wife, and I liked it. It was basically a Fox body mustang with a longer wheelbase, and i could really make something out of one of those today. Something about it I just always liked.)