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Originally Posted by bdk1976
Cool story (I've seen it posted on here and PY enough times already, though), but it's just another anecdotal story in our little echo chamber that doesn't reflect society as a whole.
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples on this forum (hell, I have one of my own) and/or in fading car clubs, but in the grand scheme of things those numbers are insignificant.
It's not like the muscle car hobby is going to vanish tomorrow - it will always be around in some form, but it is certainly changing/shrinking as folks age out.
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I don’t think anyone here is in disagreement that it isn’t changing/shrinking. Baby boomers took the world by storm, and made the world was it is today, both good and bad. But demographics is destiny. The two graphs are USA population in 1960 and USA population today broken down by age.
I’m here patiently waiting for the day I can buy an affordable Superbird or Daytona so I can live my white trash dream of a wing car, jacked up in the rear, on 15x10 Slot mags with N50’s hanging out back, blasting Deep Purple out of an 8 track, banging gears in an A833 like my life depends on it, treating it like it was made to be treated.
Collecting these cars did a lot of great things, and saved many that would’ve otherwise been parted out or scrapped. And I’m incredibly grateful that older generations than me cherished the stuff like that and were eventually willing to spend like they did on it. But what saved a lot of these cars is what will be starting to hurt it in the future.