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Abodyjoe, after reading that now, I understand a lot more what you meant 10 years ago. I just wasn't ready to hear it then. I still think you're wrong but far less then before. There is a place for young people owning classic cars, but much like model As and T buckets now it's going to become a very small group of extremely dedicated kids who specifically want that challenge. It's quite simply way too expensive. Like a few other people have mentioned the other thing to is that cars are just straight up way better than they used to be. Which is honestly one of my main reasons for getting the G8 3 years ago. It's newer, got better mileage (unless I romped on it), and was just nicer to drive over all than the Cuda. Plus for 5k you can completely rebuild the LS 2.5 that is in it and make 400 whp with just a cam, intake, and header swap and still get 24 mpg on the highway.
I do get what some of you are saying about a lack of gear heads. I'm pretty sure like one of you said it's due to technology becoming "more intuitive" to use at the expense of learning the ins and outs of getting something to work. I have a gaming computer that I'm currently typing this on. I mod literally every game I own on it, and upgrade it when money allows it.
*Today I bought some newer, bigger, faster RAM sticks to install because I was tired of one of my games yelling at me that I'm using up all my ram playing it. So I install the ram sticks, boot up the computer and nothing. I restarted the stupid thing like 10 times, finally got into the motherboard software, set everything to default and make sure that the size of RAM is correct, and now windows needs to repair itself which means I'll lose everything on my boot drive. Actually.... typing this out I know what the issue is now. When I reset the mobo it reset my boot drive and I was trying to boot off a drive that doesn't have the OS installed on it. So once I'm done with this comment I'll go back, reset my boot drive to the correct one and I'll be good to go.
*Ya'll can skip the part in red if you don't understand computers.
Point is, gear heads are people that want to fix stuff or play with things that people have deemed good enough. That's why PC modding is so niche. It's literally car guy attitudes towards their PC. And I see rumblings of the same thing there too, no one knows how to use the file explorer, no one knows how to troubleshoot, no one knows how to file their stuff correctly, no one knows how to search for files/folders etc. It's because everything is "easier to use". It does this by hiding all the hard stuff just like cars. Anyways, the point of all this rambling is that there are car people attitudes out there, it's just more difficult to find because most people rightly assume it's expensive and wrongly that it's a waste of time. And there's so many different things to get into now and cars are just becoming basic transportation that it's not really a cool hobby anymore. True gearheads will always be around, there'll just be less of them. And to send off that depressing thought, here's my brother and me putting my engine back into the G8 after it wiped out a cam lobe and I had it and the trans rebuilt (trans was an additional 3k on top of the 5 from before, so that was a fun expense to show the wife for a supposed DD). It snowed like 4 times on and off that day. Just absolute ridiculous weather lol.
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