"The Hobby Is Dying"

Us car guys have always been in the minority. Think about it. Our high school parkin lots always had a smaller population of hot rods compared to everything else. We were really, really fortunate to come up when we did. Auto shop and wood shop and such, home ec, all that, were really on the way out when we went to school in the late 70s, early 80s. Course, I had the bug before all that, but my high school auto shop teach was really guilty of settin the hook. Hard. That old guy really knew his stuff and I am still honored to have spent time with him. If schools would embrace vocational training again, instead of rejecting it, we might see a resurgence. Jones County High School, for example, still has a full auto shop complete with in ground lifts and the whole bit. Just sittin. Being used as storage. Sad, really.