The Flame Still Burns
“…to put in a full day of commercial wrenching and then set to work on things that don’t necessarily have to be done. That’s a real enthusiast.” Recently, I’ve been hearing that the old car hobby is going to fade away as today’s players “age out.” This sort of talk has been going on for years, and I’ve argued the point that the hobby is alive and well on more than one occasion. As a challenge, I’m usually asked, “Okay, so where is it hiding?” The people asking don’t necessarily want to know about the next generation of enthusiasts interested in vehicles from the ’80s and ’90s—the cars of their own youth. The real question is, usually, “What happens to the vintage hardware of earlier periods? Does it become obsolete…
