Its probably just a complete lack of interest. Some people just don't care and I can understand that. I have in-laws and several friends who live and breathe golf. When I've been asked if I play golf and replied that I had no interest in golf, got some shocked looks. Its just what people are in to. Like someone else said on here, good thing we are a minority, otherwise prices would be higher, fewer projects available and there'd be more unfinished projects rotting away in someones garage or barn. To each his own. That said, a blown hemi powered golf cart would be pretty cool!
or I get "your going to build it when its done?" as the only reason I do this is for the money,not the passion.......
I have been lucky, My future father in law is building a 29 pickup I used to own. My future wife loves riding in the cars and my mother goes to car shows with me all the time. She spends 100% of her time looking for a 1970 camaro though... She used to have one and she thinks its the greatest thing in the world. Someone asked me if my 58 pickup was legal to drive just because it was old.
See, even that doesn't bother me as much as the people that just don't get it and they don't even TRY to get it. They just mock and criticize what they don't understand. If someone moves on to other interests and doesn't criticize you, then I'm perfectly fine with that. The last time that my wife's parents stopped by (on their once-a-year pass through, but that's a whole other story) all that her mom could say when I had the garage door open to show her dad the progress on the 49 was "Look at all this JUNK... what do you do with all of this JUNK if you ever want to MOVE... Oh MY...." Meanwhile they have a 2 car garage at their house that is FULL of old furniture that they're never going to use, fishing rods, "bicycles for when the grandkids visit" even though the "kids" are all in college by now... What they failed to remember is the nice amounts of pocket money that I've made by buying & selling cars & parts so that I don't have to take money out of our mortgage payment fund... And the fun that their daughter has had and the celebrities that we've hung out with all because of our "old junk cars". Grrrr!!! ====
My wife and I had dinner at my sister-in-law's Sunday evening. 2 guys my age, 2 guys in their 20's, everyone but me a professional of some sort. When asked what I'd been doing with myself I said I'd been sorting out my roadster. They all gave me a blank look, and started passing their Iphones and Ipads around again, actually holding them in my face so I could see what they'd been up to. I'd brought along a replacement right side mirror and tools to repair my nephew's Honda CRV. He watched me take the door panel off, and replace the mirror. He was blown away and said he thought only a dealer could do this, yet he never even noticed my roadster parked out front. If it can't be displayed on a handheld device, it must not exist.
Where's AWoL when you need them! At least some sort of political energy is emerging again in the UK. If only that outrage and indignation could be channelled into issues of technological liberty. It's not really very far from economic justice at all. I refer you too to my blog, link below.
A number of the posts on this thread have served as illustrations of the emergence of a third category of stuff, after "natural" and "man-made"; namely stuff made by very powerful corporations. The simply-thereness of that stuff is increasingly taken for granted. There is no sense of human agency behind it; its inevitability is taken for granted just as forces of nature are. It is, in short, the promotion of a very specific part of the man-made realm to divine status. I think there is something seriously wrong with that.
This may be straying off topic, but what Ned has posted reminds me of the Y2K situation at the turn of the new century, when large percentages of educated people were gripped by a panic that everything digital would go down when the clock struck 12. Were there any contingency plans in place for that? Not that I recall. So what do we do in the face of such a nightmare? Just carry on making digital shit more more complex and making the human race more and more reliant on said digital shit, once again without giving any thought to what happens if something should happen to cause all this technology to fail. Kind of like the scientists that were worried that testing the first atomic bomb would cause a chain reaction in the atmosphere that would destroy the planet. But they tested it anyway! Sorry about the deviation folks, I'll shut up now, promise. Paul
Always think that if you have to explain, folks won't understand anyway.There's an awful lot i don't understand about Mr & Mrs Jo Average and too be honest i don't want to, happy to leave them to it. Have to admit it does kind of give me a buzz just knowing i freak folks out at times, drive an old car and don't care what the hell anyone thinks. I work in a college with crazy 14-19 year olds and its funny when YOU can do THEIR heads in with your choice of cars, music and attitudes, always a winner
Did someone mention about a Hemi golf cart. Mine isn't a golf cart, but a handicapped scooter. I have the time of my life driving it around with other old fuddy duddy's. If there not car guy's they never get it. I say fuck-em. Johnny Sweet
My girlfriend/now wife, always drove econo-boxes. Everytime she gets another one I ask her, "Do you want me to put a V8 in it?" She said she would like that but she doesn't want to pay more for gas. I tried to tell her there wasn't a big difference because she only puts on 3000 miles a year! You know that blank stare.....I hate it!
Peoples ignorance does piss me off. I don't expect someone to be an expert, but it's pretty obvious sometimes, like the moron who sideswiped my lime green and 40 year old daily driver car and drove away. It's pretty hard to miss, it's huge and bright. Even more surprising when insurance adjuster didn't understand why I drive such an "old" car. And yes, lots of people in the car industry aren't interested. It's a job for them, not a passion. Very few in my 15 years in the biz actually have a real interest in antique cars. And customers talk shop with me about Mazda tuner cars, I don't care. Even my good friend and serious car guy thinks old cars are ok, but is hardcore into 4 wheeling, solid axle swaps, diesel engines and the like. He'd rather have a lifted and locked Rubicon. I couldn't care less about 4X4s, but have a lot of respect in all the talented fabrication and skills it requires to build a rig. Lastly, imagine being a some import/tuner car show. I'd be clueless, and I am 30 years old and have been dealing with late model cars for a long time. It's all about one's passion, may it be building a nosed and decked custom, a pro-street, or a restored model T.
I divide most people into two camps while I'm cruising: Those who think all old cars are race cars and I want to race. Those who think all old cars are blue smoke-belching rust buskets about to break down in front of them, so they have to get around you AT ALL COSTS! Once in a while, you run into good people who may not be old car guys (there's a difference in car guys as mentioned by Hillbilly hellcat) but really take an interest and appreciation in what you have and why.
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