It's a normal feeling to lose interest ever so often. That is one reason I have switched automotive allegiances over the years from Mopar to Chevy to Pontiac, Back to Mopar, back to Pontiac etc. I'll find a new car to restore that I have never worked on before and try to learn all I can about it. I even restored my Grandfather's 1971 Lincoln with a 365 horse/460 with 11 to 1 compression. It was like rebuilding a big block chevy with the distributor on the wrong end. Very cool to learn new stuff.
As for car shows I'm done with them but the new thing are the "Cars and Coffee" events. They run between 8 and 11 am around here and all sorts of stuff shows up - and they are all driven there, from million dollar Maclarens to old Model T's. I brought our 30 year old Viper race car (that I've owned since new) out to two of them this weekend and had a ton of fun. It seems like the people that go to these events are actually there to talk with each other about their weird cars and learn about everyone else's rides. The youngest kids were in their teens and the oldest person was in their 80's. The guy next to me was a thirty-something year old guy who had a Nissan GTR with 1,300 horsepower at the 4-wheels. He built the engine himself. The lady on the other side of me was a 70 year old grandmother driving a late model Porsche. She was all excited telling us how she just about kidnapped her grandson and taught him how to drive a manual transmssion against his parents' advice. She was just beeming talking about it.
It was a helluva lot of fun.
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