Should vintage now move on up to 1978 as 74 was once 70?

The premise of the question was referring to wether there should be a cut off point from which you differentiate between what would be called vintage or not at a specific time frame or if build quality determines the answer for example a lot of folks having a hard time equating 70s Fenders as being of a good quality so should those guitars not be considered vintage as they have been around 40 years or so. This might seem like a non issue but there are financial aspects to this scenario, put vintage in front of the tag and you’ve doubled your money and looking at some listings 70s Fenders currently have high resale values but they may be of dubious quality? Or just different with their sleek and shiny poly finishes. I had a 78 Tele, it intonated well, had good action, sounded great, looked good maybe there was a better quality control if it was going for export due to the higher prices that would be charged?
I would like to buy another one but they are expensive now because they have the vintage tag.

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I liked the ultra colours but was disappointed in the jazz master it had become very strat like with that ubiquitous squeaky honkiness and didn’t sound like a jazz master at all. Personally they should have just stuck three vintage jazz master pickups and jimmied the switches a little.


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They will be vintage because they will be x amount of years old, the problem on here is does vintage connotate a design specific or should it be purely on the fact the instrument has reached x amount of years. It seems to me on here that people think that if it has a poly finish it'll never be vintage? In 50 years when those attitudes have reduced music to everyone playing the same super exacting guitar and amp with the exact same manufacturing tolerances and writing the same song then I think these instruments from the shiny happy wobbly period will be vintage and they will be the last vintage because they are not all exacting. It started already look at that hip hop RnB thing it's like one long song all day, a lot of suet being eaten on that shift.

 

Thanks for all your input on this question and I have now concluded after much consternation that there are a lot of obstinate folks on here and there will be a new classification of vintage for the short period of the original poly finish guitars to be called "Fintage" for those of a more street urchin like ambivalence such as myself.

 

Why cant this beauty be vintage?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1978-Vin...ean/233427388514?_trksid=p2485497.m4902.l9144