True car people are becoming a thing of the past

abodyjoe said
that was probably me. and it wasn't QA1 junk under my car..

i think you took what i said out of context.. i stand by what i said.. classic cars just aren't the place for young people. by young people i mean those in high school into their early 20's.. its not snobery or any of that bull ****.. its economics.. just doesn't make sense.. if thats what one wants, sure go ahead and buy that rusty old junk for stupid money and have to put tons into it to get it road worthy. or maybe daddy has a 60 year stash of parts for you to put it together..who knows it was intended to mean that it makes much more sense to buy more modern muscle. look at the more modern cars you can buy that aren't rust buckets that do everything better then classics at a fraction of the cost of classics. hell, most 4cyl and 6cyl cars of today out perform classic in just about every way, classics are just stupid money to play with. hell at 54 i'm not paying the stupid money they are selling classic muscle for these days.. in a few years when my daughter gets he license i'd totally steer her away from a 60's or 70's car.. we would be looking for the modern mustangs, challengers and camaros and probably a bunch of different imports. she can learn everything she could imagine working on those cars and be able to work on the typical daily driver too since she would have to lean about computer controlled cars...

Makes sense but also, where there's a will, there's a way... I guess instead of dumping $20k+ over the course of 16 years into my A-body I could have saved that money and bought a nice 6-speed S550 Mustang GT. But I like building stuff myself and going off the beaten path. Buying an pre-packaged assortment of performance parts off AmericanMuscle.com or Late Model Restoration that have already been done by thousands of others doesn't excite me. My real passion is building engines and there's no way I could have afforded to rebuild and modify a Coyote, LS or G3 Hemi in my 20s like I did with old-school Mopar V8s. Well maybe an LS but who gives a **** lol, every bozo with no creativity builds those.

Sometimes modifying something from slow to fast is more satisfying than going from fast to faster. I'd rather build my 50-year-old Detroit iron to compete with a BMW 3-series than buy a BMW M3 that can beat both of them off the showroom floor.

Also one last point, I forget which model year it started but the EPA has made it illegal to modify factory ECM tunes and dealer warranty is also voided. So if your daughter wants to tune her modern car for more power she'll need to keep that in mind, at least if her car still has warranty and/or she lives in a place that does emissions testing.