Where's the end to our cars?

I think if you maintain the car and underbody and avoid accidents, the car will last as long as you want it to. Very little is unsaveable (dont think thats a word) as long as you have the money to get it put right again. Do any current sports cars have frames (not familiar with cars outside of Ford)? I wouldnt think so due to the weight issue. Frames seem to be for trucks and full size sedans these days.

My 62's a unibody and at 46 years old it's as solid as any newer car. It's also getting a ground up resto. Basically the same as any other resto just that there's no full frame. I don't see any problems restoring our stangs later, just more to them than older cars. People still restore much older unibody's than mine all the time. A lot of people use car rotisseries for the hard to reach areas like the guy in this pic.

Every mustang has been a unibody along with every F-body and about every car made since the mid 70's (except the 80's monte/buick regal based cars and a few others).

frame off still applied there are just 2 sections of frame to remove. I remember in the early 90's a buddies dad saying "who the hell is going to want and restore anything from today" while we were stripping his 64 malibu SS for a frame off.

Granted 90-95% of the cars then and even to now are not going to be around in 20yrs. However, to answer the question my buddies dad asked well any mustang, any f-body, regal/t-type, vett., some of the nissan 240-300's, supras, vipers, conquests, talon/eclipse as a list of cars up to the early/mid 90's.

I would not say they are not as strong as a full frame car but just different...both have +/-. 99% of the time a car is totaled it is due to the air bag going off due to cost of replacement of those systems at say around 2k+ that is a big chunk for such a small part of the repair before you even address the accident damage.