True car people are becoming a thing of the past

What I see is a lack of worthwhile project cars priced for what they are actually worth. The supply get smaller every year. High priced parts cars. I am talking cars of the 60s 70s and not hemi Cudas either. Such should discourage anyone younger or older. Price of resto parts is nuts as is most of what you buy at O Reillys etc.

I got my DL in '64. Back then, and beyond a decade or so, most people wanted a cool car to drive NOT build. Day 2 stuff was the extent of most guys "working" on their rides. Be it a new car or just a "used" purchase. Add some cool mags and maybe under dash gauges, a tack and be cool! A real gear head was not common in rural America where I lived. But way more plentiful than today.

Then here comes the mid to later 80s and the old musclecar of the sixities are HOT! Find a complete old RoadRunner or 340 Duster an make it run and get the local young apprentice at the body shop to do the body/paint orlearn to do it yourself..cheap..or fill the pasture full of non running project cars!! Then the prices of these cars fall and rise and a fall and......

Around here the majority of low end shoppers want a running, driving, solid, decent paint and interior "classic" (old car) that everythg is new or rebuilt and they want it for nothing. Or maybe trade their POS rice motor cycle for it since winter (S E Texas! ha) is on. The lookers for a "real" classic like a common 69 3838 RoadRunner want a perfect car for less than costs of part and materials. I guess the spenders go to Mcum for their rides!!?? :thumbsup: :poke: :steering: