Interesting spin on old cars

[Derek69SS]

Originally Posted by bdk1976

Fewer kids are interested in cars/driving these days, and ones that are interested in old cars and driving them are a miniscule subset of those.

My observation is that more kids are interested in cars today than 20 years ago. The recent musclecar wars have fueled a new generation of car enthusiasts.

Originally Posted by LetsFNgo

Most people my generation(millennial) don’t care about old cars.

I'm a Millenial too (1982). Our generation had a big disadvantage in that we were too young to get any good performance parts in the junkyards and too old to get into the cheap LS/turbo stuff in our youth.

When we were 16-25, if you got a junkyard 350 or 454 it was a low compression, cast piston, weak rod, junk head engine that took a hefty machine shop bill and a lot of aftermarket parts to turn it into anything reasonably high-performance. LS stuff was still new and expensive.

The LS/turbo or just cammed LS stuff has brought hotrodding back to the young guys building high performance cars out of junkyard parts. I know more under-30 car guys than 30-45yo car guys because they grew up with real performance engines being attainable at home. They're not doing stuff with musclecars because of the economics, not because they're not interested.

The LS engine has brought back the junkyard hotrodder like how it started with the Flatheads.