Since I write articles about car restoration, and a lot of them, people like to ask the occasional odd ball question, and I thought that this qualified as an odd ball question, I won’t call them by name, but they asked if I thought that auto restoration was just a fad, and on it’s way out.
I truly don’t think that this is the case, it has been around for years, it all started with some good old boys building cars in the garage of their homes, they’d do this usually for fun, or because they had just lost a race to another car.
Back in those days there was no after market, these people had to build most of their own performance parts, and mods for their cars, and a few of them enjoyed it so much that they turned the idea in to a business, one of them was Vic Edelbrock, as in Edelbrock performance parts company.
Vic senior was one of those guys, and you see what his home garage turned in to, this is proof that the hot rod, and restoration businesses are not a fad, and proof that they are timeless, as long as they are good at predicting what’s happening in the industry.
Auto restoration provides a way for car lovers to restore a little of this countries automotive history, and at the same time build a car that they love, a car that they can take to the shows and brag about, restoration offers these people a way to get their families involved in their car hobby
Their are a lot of people who enjoy old cars, for one reason or another, I love them because they are different, they don’t look like the boring bland new cars, you know the ones I’m talking about, the little import tuna cans that the kids of today like to build.
The old cars have long sleek bodies, with high body crowns and long rolling side panels, they have a class and style about them that no new car could ever have, a timeless quality that can never be repeated again, the new cars will never be the same.
So when people ask questions like do I think that Auto restoration is a fad, and will it eventually go away, as long as people like exist on this planet it can never go away, as you see from the articles that I write, I do everything that I can to see that it never fades away.
That is one of the main reasons that I write these articles, if I continue to do so people will read them, and it will spark an interest in old cars, and their is one thing that I have always said, once the old car bug bites your their is no cure.
Over the years I have thought that I found the cure, and moved on to get certified in computers, but quickly discovered that it is not as much fun as cars are, I even put the same philosophy in to building computers as I do cars, big fast processors, a lot of ram, and the meanest video card I can get.
This is the equivalent of building a hot rod in the cars world, a custom go fast car that is just the absolute coolest car on the street, classic cars just seem to get my blood pumping, and I am not the only person on the earth that feels this way.
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