I’m getting old

We are lucky to have a shop in town that repairs alt. Gen. starters etc. Generator in my Model A ford blew up, took to that shop, I’m friends with the owner. He puts the armature on the growler and says it’s fubar. Then says wait a minute and we went to his parts room. He walks way in the back roots around for a bit then he pulls this thing out and blows a inch of dust off it and says I think this is it. Sure enough $65 later I was back on the road. I never laughed so hard as when he blew the dust off, thing must have been there for 50 years LOL
We no longer have anyone in Tallahassee who can rebuild generators or starters or even (I think) alternators. Or radiators. Used to have a guy who could rebuild clutches, including race clutches. But he is gone now, too.