What is so called 'Classic' Hi-Fi and does any deserve the title?

[morris_minor]

By the way Bob, is that actually your 'slightly' modified Minor? Shame the bonnet won't shut!

I wish! (No, just a picture nicked off the 'net. . . )

[nat8808]

"Vintage" and "Classic" does mean "secondhand" these days.

You see 90s stuff called "vintage" FFS, what's that all about? Is anyone taken in by that?

A classic should be like a good representative example of a style of type of something from an era. So I don't think anything rare should really be considered classic in general terms.