I hear ya Ed.......I think we lived in just the right era. We have our hot rods, whether our grankids care or not, up to them. I don't think it's our duty or place to force it on them.

Me too about the politics......just stresses me out

if you go on kijji and look at the selection for what s call classic cars you ll see lot of 70 and 80 s that are selling or for sale more than 50 sand 60 s

good point ed, where is this hobby headed and how fast are we getting there, don't know but it will be faster than we think, i'm guessing. our parents and grand parents didn't have all the hi-tech technology influencing their lives as we do today. our kids but more so our grand-kids are coming out of school now 1/2 assed prepared for it. they can't spell or are somewhat illiterate in basic math, but give them today's lap top or smart phone and we become the dinosaur's and they say this new g-5 tech coming at us is going to make the last 50-60 years look ancient. remember back in the 60's when they heralded the first computers and you were seeing all the data cards being fed through them and they were predicting this technology would be revolutionary in the future, i do and so far they were right. lol
-now, throw in the hi-tech and the pollution problem which is probably way worse than they are telling us and give it all a stir and you will find what is going to influence our hobby, i am thinking. joe is right about the early cars not really worth much today and i think it is due to that generation, our parents and grand parents, who were interested in them have all passed on. today when they sell it is most times to be rodded out to suit our generation.

- predictions,   1-  the grey areas in pollution control devices on our cars will become black and white, not grey.

                      2-  good hi-test petroleum based gas will be harder to come by and expensive.

                      3-  400 series highways will be off limits unless you are electric and eventually autonomous.

                      4-  your guess, but when you have the worlds largest auto maker, g-m, making drastic changes to prepare for whats coming

                           i'd say that's a good hint of where were going, maybe. lol

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last september i was a pall bearer for my last aunt on dads side who passed at the age of 99 just 1 month short of the 100 mark. at the reception after the funeral some of the discussion got into what all she had seen change in her lifetime and someone mentioned what all her dad, grand-pop, had seen in his 87 yrs also. there weren't many cars around in 1885 and he lived long enough to see a man walking on the moon. 1885 to 1972, moonwalk 1969 and i know he still had his smarts up till just before he passed.

-whatever all the changes were in their lives are going to be almost stone age compared to what we are, hopefully lol, going to see with the hi-tech element thrown into the pot for a stir. 

 

 

We embraced rock and roll much to the chagrin or our parents, our kids danced to 80s music, ugh and now our grandkids, maybe some of you, reading this have found a whole new venue. My son, 26, writes this latest music, I don't understand it but my parents didn't understand CHUM. Things constantly evolve. Next, young people today live in an overly expensive world at a minimum wage. There is no room for anything but the basics. It isn't only cars; antiques, stamps, coins and other rarities are dropping in value. There are too few buyers today that can afford to drive the price up. But then, we all knew getting into this hobby, it wasn't for the profit. We're all getting too old to waste our time complaining, let's just enjoy these last few minutes we have and let the next generations find their own enjoyment.

Warren

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We embraced rock and roll much to the chagrin or our parents, our kids danced to 80s music, ugh and now our grandkids, maybe some of you, reading this have found a whole new venue. My son, 26, writes this latest music, I don't understand it but my parents didn't understand CHUM. Things constantly evolve. Next, young people today live in an overly expensive world at a minimum wage. There is no room for anything but the basics. It isn't only cars; antiques, stamps, coins and other rarities are dropping in value. There are too few buyers today that can afford to drive the price up. But then, we all knew getting into this hobby, it wasn't for the profit. We're all getting too old to waste our time complaining, let's just enjoy these last few minutes we have and let the next generations find their own enjoyment.

Warren

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 there you go warren, the music, good one. chum radio toronto with scruff connors, r.i.p, and ??? radio montreal with ralf the bird man lockwood come to mind from my old truck driving days. there was another guy in vancouver who had a following and a couple of more stations that skipped in late at night from chicago and the big apple. the beatles were no doubt the biggest cultural influence on our generation with the long hair, the bell bottom pants and the higher heels on the shoes. i can remember dad getting real loud about the hair and the heels with mom telling him to relax as he had obviously forgot about the zoot suits and ??? else his dad cracked off about. funny what you remember isn't it. music is a common thread that can bind generations, that is until they got to the rap crap stuff, for me anyway.

One evening as I lamented to my wife about all the stuff we did as kids - riding a dirt bike from our farm through the next few farms to the lake , for example - my wife responded " Randy, I know you want our kids to have fun the way we did, but they can't. They'll find fun suitable to their generation and they won't miss what they never knew". She's right. Us old guys want to re-live our glory days through our kids so just gotta learn to let go and keep moving forward.

What about roddin space ships???

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I think hot rodding is gonna die off with us as we do

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Its already happening. Only a small segment of "ratrod" guys are interested in the old stuff.  Theres gonna be some good deals commin up.I would give it another 10yrs. Hope Im wrong.

I Love the gassers. Grew up in TO in the 60s .Gassers all around. Not much interest in street gassers here-more in the states.I would love to see more up here.

I hear what you guys are saying but there are lots of younger people enjoying the hobby as well. I went to one show this summer in Ottawa and there had to be at least 200-250 tuner type cars there. Perhaps not what you are into but great to see just the same. Guys taking cars and turning them into something else. We grew up with big blocks, high horsepower straight line speeds. These guys are building smaller motors putting out big numbers with turbos and measuring speed by going around a track with better handling then what was built long ago. Might not like there music, my parents don't like mine, so what. Might not like there cars but they don't like mine, so what. We all don't like the same things. For you guys, did you encourage your kids to be with you while building? Did you give them the resources to try and build stuff? For me, well I have 3 boys, I took them to all kinds of car shows. Two of them are into cars big time, one is building or has built several already. That kid has owned more cars in 10 years then I have in 40. The other one has had one rod but sold it to get a bike. The middle child says he is into cars but wants a house first. What is he building, battle bots. Yes fighting robots. Been to California on TV, goes to several tournaments a year all in order to bust up someone else's toy or his. I always had the kids building stuff with me. Things come and go but it is the love for a child or the love we show them that lasts. Being with them is everything, the stuff we have is all bonus. IMHO
Sorry if this sounds like a rant, well it is in part I guess. Things change. That's life

i seen many times here older people pushing youngster with tuners away they had to go park way at the end of the parking lot not the best way to encourage them to like old cars or old people

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so how many members here are in their 20 s ?

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 Seems that most of the young guys are on Facebook etc, not on the forums. 

My niece worked for CBC radio and she was asked to do an editorial piece on the old car hobby.  She pointed out that while my generation had fond memories of the old cars going places, driving fast and making noise her generation only saw them sitting still at a car show with the owners sitting behind them.  Not quite as exciting.

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My niece worked for CBC radio and she was asked to do an editorial piece on the old car hobby.  She pointed out that while my generation had fond memories of the old cars going places, driving fast and making noise her generation only saw them sitting still at a car show with the owners sitting behind them.  Not quite as exciting.

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Hope to change this. Hopefully, I will take my kids for a nice cruise to the east coast in the El Camino this summer if I can get the engine swap done in time.

Driving fast and making noise along the way.

Memories for them actually tooling around, rather than just going to a cruise night of parked cars.