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Originally Posted by unruhjonny
this is no surprise to me.
look at my generation, and the ones ten or more years younger than me - a great many of them aren't even interested in getting drivers licenses, let alone having interests in cars...
A part of me hopes to get some stellar cars in the future if musclecars go the way 50's cars have gone in the last twenty years...
And if the market doesn't go down, then I will continue to enjoy my one muscelcar - and appreciate others from afar  |
There's a subset like this, yes, but there always was.
I see TONS of interest from younger people in the car hobby. The big problem is affordability. Especially with the old cars. Lets say you really wanted a GTO. Well that name plate alone is going to bring a large premium, regardless of it's condition, so you start looking for a LeMans that you can convert.
You find an okay car that still needs work in the 5-8k range. That's well and good, but then you have body, paint, possible engine/transmission, electrical etc. Unless you can literally do everything on your own, you've got another 25-40K in parts and labor. Younger people can not afford that and their parents that once may have been able to help lost their job when the coal plant shut down, or the automotive plant moved to mexico.
In my opinion, the lack of interest in cars is more a symptom of affordability than a mindset change itself. If you know you can't afford a hobby, you're going to move in a direction of something else that makes you happy that you can afford.
This is also why you see more younger people in honda's and such. That 5k that you spend on a beat up LaMans that needs thousands in work buys you a running, driving Honda with a B18 swap that you can go show off and work on at the same time.