Hot Rods Are you seeing any young bloods in hot rods

It's certainly a hard sell for many young people to spend the money to get 220V in their garage when most people don't care on resale, it's totally lost money.

I've had a lot of peers who were really interested in my old vehicles, but didn't have either the disposable income, motivation, or place to work on something of their own.

For a lot of people (young and old), their disposable income is mainly spent on entertainment, casinos, restaurants, and bars. My disposable income is cars first.

 

Where there is a will, there is a way, but prices I’ve found are just crazy. I’ve been looking the last few years fairly regularly on FB. I see stuff that hadn’t sold in over a year with little to no change in asking price. This is an example of folks smoking dope…

 

yup. this hobby is doomed. not only are young folks not interested but all the vintage tin has dried up, I have the Rod Action Magazine from 1978 to prove it.

 

My 8 year old nephew loves to go to the cars and coffee and his favorite ride is the 34 Chevy.

 

Trying to do my part and get my grandson started in the right direction early

 

My wife and I were talking about this at the local cruise get together in Northwest Tucson last Thursday. The average age of the customers at the Freddy’s that hosts the event must have been right around eighty or so.

 

Isn't that the average age in Arizona in the winter?

I used to know a lot of retired Canadians that went down there for the winter.

 

Here is a great example of people putting in the effort!

@NJ Don is young man was asking questions about hot rodding and hot rods so Don told him to hop in!



Wayde Seaburg the tech inspector for the Mohawk Valley Vintage Dirt Modifieds owns The Jokers 44 a historic stock car from western New York he often paces the field at Fonda speedway.

He added a second seat a seat belt and there was a free raffle open to all kids to ride with Wayde during the pace laps before each of our three class features.




This young man got the best show Mike Gray pulled up in the Bill Koller K-71 a real Fonda car, Mike revved the engine and ended up shooting a giant ball of fire out of the exhaust.

Wayde said all the kids were over the moon, but the last kid was hooked!
Those kids are likely to be race fans and cars guys for life!




Instead of condescending and acting as if young people don't belong, people should be trying to get them involved, and be willing to share their knowledge with the next generation so the car hobby lives on long after we are gone!

 

I believe Little Truckdoctor is hooked.

 

My son is 23 now and has been into everything with wheels since birth. I made sure of it. Mini bikes, 4 wheelers, go carts & dirt bikes. Now he's momma's worry on the Harley. We built his new engine for the El Camino shortly after I gave it to him on his 21st birthday.