Historic vehicle?

One day, when I left the community center, I noticed a car with "Historic Vehicle" tags...

Since the plate indicates "77", I guessed it was a 1977 Toyota Camry. But... Carl and I were chatting about it, and I checked online, and Google says that Toyota introduced the first Camry in Japan in 82/83, and first in the US in 1983.  So... I don't know what the "77" on the plate means.

While I can't deny that it was in really great shape, it just doesn't seem "historic" to me! It did make me remember my 1984 Honda Accord, which I thought was a little luxury car at the time -- and it probably looked a lot like this!

I did more checking with Google, and the search indicated that a car is generally considered to be an antique if it is 45 years or older, though definitions vary by organization and state. The Antique Automobile club of America (AACA) defines them as 25 years or older for their club activities. Arizona defines a historic vehicle as being least 25 years old.

 

I went looking for pictures of my '84 Honda Accord, and evidently I did not take any when I first got it... but I found a couple of scanned images with the car in the picture...

 

The daughter of one of my friends, evidently planning to start driving!

My Honda Accord in the moving van when IBM was moving me from Virginia to Texas. I remember this so distinctly -- the movers arrived and I had read that you should be in your house to supervise. But, the head of the three guys that came let me know that I needed to weigh my car so they could appropriately charge me (actually IBM) for the weight of my goods being moved. So, I got sent off to a scale leaving them alone in my house packing it up. I remember I knew that it would be a while before I had access to my moved goods as I would be in IBM supplied housing for a couple of months, so I had lots of things packed in the car since I would be able to get it as soon as it got to Texas. When I got back from the weigh station, the movers had put almost everything from my house into the truck -- it was all tightly packed in the front of the moving truck. The head guy instructed me (me!) to drive my car up onto the truck!!! He directed me, but I was more than a little apprehensive as I had to accelerate to drive up those ramps, get the car onto the truck, but not go too far and crash in to all my worldly belongings! Thankfully I got it onto the truck and didn't destroy any of my belongings in the process (and, as far as I remember, the movers got everything well packed without my supervision!).

 

Back to historic vehicles... 

 

Carl and I got to discussing which are the oldest car models still in production... so we again asked Google, and, according to Diehl Auto, found that the Chevrolet Suburban  has been around the longest, being in production since 1935!!! (https://www.diehlauto.com/car-models-that-have-been-around-the-longest) It is interesting to see what vehicles are on that list!