Too old to rock and roll and too young to die. I'll wait while you young whippersnappers google that.
It would be great to see the "under 20" & the"20-30" pick up a lot. These guys are the future of this hobby. I was surprised to see the average age being so high. I thought my age group(50-60) or even the 40-50 would be the highest. I guess that's what you get for having a 'Traditional" website. The old guys have seen "traditional" first hand.
I'm a young buck at 31 but fill 50 with all the bones I broken. But most of my friends are 50 - 60 range. So does this make me 40-50 range??
Fewer of the under 30 crowd than I expected... I wonder if that’s because most of the ones I know who are interested under 30 are into the OT muscle cars and land boats of the late 1960’s-1980’s
I´m 42, but I´ll be busy up to my 105th birthday to finish all the projects I have on my bucket list... and after that I´ll just enjoy and drive ´em.
In many respects, the HAMB is a time warp. I grew up in SoCal in the fifties and I was 20 years old when ROD & CUSTOM printed my first tech story. What passes for "traditional" here wasn't the way I remember it. There's a lot of knowledge here and some interesting history. By the same token, there are a few twenty somethings that buy a box of little books and know more than anybody how it was "back in the day". For the record, I'm 77. This was my ride when I was a junior in high school. Had to have a wagon as I had paper routes.
As being one I would take a guess as its due to a few factors like the cars cost so much to build due to the shape they often are in, part sourcing and many may not have a place to work on the car. Cheaper to get an import and go drifting or a 70s-80s car that was made before we took breath. I know people who say anything before cell phones is vintage. For some it could be there first job or second job, others have student loans or a new family that come first. Often renting and may not have the space to work. Skill set to do the work is not present. I cant weld - i need to get an older mate to do it. Youtube is my teacher often. Also many who do post all excited with a new old car & great dreams get the threads shut down due to thinking of frame swaps etc like we see on TV. Or simply slammed by stuck in the mud one eyed old guys. I used to think anything from 1970s and older was traditional. heck over here its cheaper to register such cars as they are classed as vintage or something. Site is the largest hotrod/custom site so it draws us but unless you have a bit of a thick skin it aint the most friendliest. I can see this side of the hobbie dieing off due to the people dieing off not due to fuel prices and emission laws. then we may come along and go "traditional is non-computer/chip based". One way to help attract a lower demographic would be a new forum section for "Traditionally Inspired". A place to post those frame swaps, MII front ends and what ever. A place to help new guys get started in the hobby and to help keep the old cars on the road safely. They are my ideas as to why we dont see many under 30s and a possible solution/band-aid.
Want to lower the average age on this forum a decade or two? Include muscle cars up to 1972. There I've said it, I will never speak of it again.
older than 70, at this point I no longer care about extended warranties and lifetime guaranty has no meaning, one other thing is that to those people that would do me harm, life in prison doesn't carry the same threat it once did.
I did have it, but it was from Advanced Lyme disease that I could not get a Doctor to believe me that I DID have Lyme...for 20 Damn months! before I finally got the best Lyme Doctor"unavailable due to too many patients!" !! Ok, I was changing things in my head, things I did NOT want to hear, or just changing what I heard... Scary stuff when you cannot know if what you just experienced is true or..NOT!!! I am sitting here right now tonight, wondering if If "imagined" that a guy stopped to buy a car off my lawn that belongs to a good friend..He said he'd be back at 4:30 to 5 PM today...no show! He was a great guy, so either something really bad happened to him or a family member...or...did I imagine the whole experience today? This*****s!!! Good luck... I was rammed up the tail when I hit 65 a little over a year ago... I had been on SSI when I turned 62 I took the partial amount because I needed it...but just because I now hit 65?..oh, "bend over again"...Dear Frank, you now lose your State of CT DOT 100% insurance and FORCED to take MedicareLESS!! o ly because I turned 65?? WTF!!! Medicareless that covers only 80% and to add to the torment, I then got $140 per month deducted from my small SSI monthly payment, and I have no clue why that is... !!!...Well, not saying who I talked to but, I now got 3 months re-imbursement of that $140 AND it no longer gets deducted!...unless Quote: "I get rich" in my bank accounts! screw the "Ozzie and Harriet" myth we baby boomers were brainwashed into believing about life!! Screw the rules!! don't buy into the BS! Now, today? Pics just taken just now before dark....Ok I needed to move the crawler that was holding up a steel spiral Staircase...it is going against the F;n house!!...I will add a narrow deck at the gutter height, to have cookouts up there! ( the gutters got torn off in 2013 when a EF1 Tornado took a direct hit here!..). That 3-1/2 foot square stainless steel firepit thing with claw feet is going up there, to cook on...and a free garage door opener with track, will be mounted vertically to haul food trays up there! LMFAO!! oh, and later today, I pounded a steel pole swivel for the antique "school yard" hand controlled backhoe thing, and the huge Tonka dump truck next to my garden frog pond! F' em, My son and a couple others think "I need help", well maybe I do! Oh, people have called the CT State police on me twice in 8-10 months! The last time in January, two State cruisers sitting on my front lawn when I got back from the Lyme doctor? ... well we had a fun chat, the officer in charge finally says "we'd love to stay and visit with you Frank, but I got to go pick up my kid at soccer!" No Lie! ...LOL...oh and between me and my newest neighbor , Troop C is pretty familiar with the "500 block" of Stafford road! My newest neighbor has spent a total of 22 years incarcerated, he is 43. I love him to death,,, a very nice, kind guy, with "no chip on his shoulder" from such a tough childhood.. and he is doing so great now, thank goodness.. Shit, I am having a f-n good time in retirement!! EDIT...11PM...well I can't retire completely due to shortage of income,,,BUT...the Temps tonight are just so awesome... I just took the 32 out for gas in a 5 gallon can for working on stuff tomorrow...geez, it was like a true warm summer night... The first place had no gas? Then had to travel North, ended up at the University...finally saw another old car on campus for the first time ever, parked in front of a eatery..a super mint Yellow very early MGA with top down...I did take pics but tired me, deleted them by mistake...hey!! , it was NOT old age...yea right!] A quick trip for gas? I cannot believe I was gone from 9 pm to 10:30pm...I guess I just like talking with new people. ..
crap...it*****s being competitive...ok people, we 50 - 60's are in 3rd. tell the younger guys to hurry up and age
You got me by 7, you are the same age as my brother. I remember Southern California differently, as well. I know what my brother & his friends were driving back then and what me and my friends were driving then. My favorite quote by those that know all about it but hadn't been born yet is " nobody drove 4 doors back then"! I beg to differ... And for the record, I'll be 70 in August. I had a paper route also!!!
What difference does it really make? We are into cars and have always been or just discovering the fun. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Well it is a little off subject but others have been with the comments on age so............. They say these are my golden years. Hell......... the only thing golden for me is my urine.
Well, Larry...the comment in my area on the Right Coast >>> "The Golden Years?...Yea, that is what's running down your leg".. On that note...lol....here is the "new" sliding door on my bathroom near the new Pink& Red kitchen..I used 15 greeting cards with envelopes, backed by 15 hand cut mirrors for bathroom privacy! These old houses had small bathrooms and the in-swing door just was awful for getting in or out! So I used a old glass pane porch door on a Home Depot sliding closet door track.....the track hides under some wild "batik" cloth made for slinky dresses! Check out the two cards dealing with "old" age... I haven't painted the walls yet...2 different shades of pinks and the lower part of walls will be red.. Long after I chose those "unusual?"colors for this 1940 home? ...no lie>>> I was stripping one wall and saw the original 1940 colors in the kitchen...yep, it was pink upper, red lower ..WTH??? Hey, it's like I can see the past somehow?...can that help pick a winning Powerball number ?
I have been into hot rods for a bit over 20 years now. I was taught and rebuilt my first engine 24 years ago which doesn’t sound like much but as I am only 34 years old I would say I am doing OK. I have been an automotive and heavyline diesel mechanic professionally for 16 years and now those days are done unfortunately. My back decided it had enough and I am now one back surgery in and got another one coming up in I hope not for another 20 years but we will see. I have a 1949 chevy 4 door deluxe style line and it is my pride and joy. It is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it is awesome to me. Unfortunately due to medical reasons I am having to sell it so if you guys know of anyone who would like a running and driving project with enough spare parts to rebuild half the car PM me. I love hanging out with the guys who were in the industry back when the model A’s were normal cars on the road. Those guys are the guys I make good friends with and just listen to them talk and soak up that knowledge because there is no where else you will ever get that kind of amazing info from. Thanks for letting me ramble on for a while. Take care all you fellow hot rodders and restorers. Cory Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
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