[Nicks67GTO]

Originally Posted by 63gpman

37 and feels like all of my friends are 50+ not many car guys my age. Maybe due to work life balance, maybe due to not growing up around these cars? Who knows?

It's a combination of complete unaffordability and not growing up around mechanical tasks like previous generations. This used to be an everyman hobby. You could buy a cool project car, cheap and scower junkyards for treasures. Those days are long gone and have been for 25 years. Cars are typically either complete trash or somewhat restored anymore. Restored cars command a crazy amount of money and we all know trashed cars cost more in the long haul. Most of these guys my age have piles of college debt, ridiculous day care bills and are just trying to make it all month to month. The only reason I have my GTO is because I got it when they were cheap. I love musclecars like no one else but there is 0 chance I go drop $30-40K for a GTO right now. The prices of these cars, that everyone loves to brag about right now, is what will kill the hobby.