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Originally Posted by GOAT WHORE
Why is it so important to get young people to like our cars? Should it be equally important for them to get us to like there newer cars?
It just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter. (in my best Bill Murry impression)
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I don't know ... why do we teach American History in schools? It's up to us, the village elders, to bring the youngins along and teach them a little about this old iron ... if for no other reason to show them why, in the older parts of town, why the parking spaces are so d*mn big.
Seriously though, in ten years or so, we'll have ten estate sales for every buyer. I personally don't want to see that happen to our cars. I'd like to believe that we'll have a new generation take over when we can longer do it. We've put a bunch of time, love and money in this old iron and I'd really hate to see this stuff rot from disinterest.
This is where this turbo Miata came from. I'm an avid workout junkie so out of all the youngins I work out with, there's only one who is really interested in cars ... period. Used to be about 8 out 10 males who were intensely interested in cars back in my day.
So this 19 year old like most kids his age was interested only in rice. So little by little he started making the change ... first the fascination of how a V8 sounds. Then the ride and the surprisingly good handling for something this big. Then to his first big national meet ... the POCI Nationals in Dayton. Did all the events while there including Friday at Kilcare. This includes the surprise regarding how iron this big and old could get down the dragstrip like many of them did.
Then one thing leads to another and then that light blue 69 Grand Prix SJ 428 HO appeared in the PY forum classifieds a few months ago .... the one in Eureka, CA. Got him interested enough that he talked to Hagerty about insurance costs (found out that they won't cover him on a collector car until he's 25).
Overall, made a bunch of progress to take from someone who wouldn't even consider an American car, old or new, to the point that he'll certainly buy a new one from the home team and likely an old one at some point.
He goes to our local old cars, old guys hangout on Thursday night and I go to his Friday and Saturday late night ricer hangout .... with the 63 of course. It's a big hangout with 400 - 500 cars and it's 90% rice and a few new domestics. I'm the only old car there and I frankly get more attention than anyone else.
I think this is how we bring the new generation along so we have someone to take over when we're all gone. It all happens one kid at a time.