Anyone else ever visit boomer-tier car forums and get really depressed?
Outside of repair threads a lot of them are just complaining about their cars becoming irrelevant and how the younger generations don't appreciate them
It's kinda sad to see
All of them seem to know their days are numbered and their cars will be forgotten, they band together to cope.
Message them privately that you're a young appreciator and NOT a israelite youtube flipper and buy them. That's what I do.
Literary this. I was the lowest offer on my boomermobile but I told boomer I'm a boomermobile enjoyer and intend to keep it until I'm as old as he is.
Which is true, honestly based boomer for taking a cut to keep the culture going. I'll sell it to some kid too.
Why are those people so desperate for other people to like the things they like? Is being your own witness not sufficient? It's never enough for boomers
Wait until you're fat and old and everyone you know starts kicking the bucket. When you see everything you enjoy or love fall to dust and have no one to share it with, you'd probably start doing the same. (That or suicide)
Getting old is miserable, no matter who or how insufferable someone is.
>Wait until you're fat and old and everyone you know starts kicking the bucket
the universe is cyclical. for each person you lose someone new comes along.
Parents, best friends, and the love of your life youve been with for decades are not replacable anon. It isn't that it can't be dealt with, its that it hurts tremendously, key people in your life keep disappearing, AND you're 70. I give boomers shit all the time when its merited but they're still people and the inherint sorrow of growing old isnt a thing to try and dunk on somebody for, its coming for you, me, and everyone you love.
Extremely well put anon, thank you for that
>samegay upboating your own post
>On this entire board nobody could possibly agree with something I don't agree with, you MUST be a samegay!!!
Inb4 you claim I'm also that guy lmao
the fault is with American culture and how it perceives death. in some cultures like Mexico funerals are a celebration of the person's life not acting weepy that they're gone.
You do know they still weep right? Just because they celebrate doesn't mean they don't grieve.
Oh and friends don't really exist past grade school, there are only people claiming to be friends who are trying to take advantage of you.
>Oh and friends don't really exist past grade school
they used to become comrades from the third space, usually a church or maybe a community club. but nobody goes to those anymore because ~~*somebody*~~ ripped the fabric of society apart and filled it with gheyness
>for each person you lose someone new comes along.
What a load of shit
no really you have kids, grandkids, etc who are important to you. your own generation isn't the only thing there ever is unless you're a turbo narcissist.
by the time you're elderly most of your friends will tend to be people in their 60s, your kids' generation who are still young enough to be active but not so removed from your generation to be unrelatable to you.
> the universe is cyclical. for each person you lose someone new comes along.
Its actually a spiral into nothingness.
I'll never be fat because I'm not a goyslop-sustained overly medicated inactive tard like most boomers are. I'll die but that's okay because death is a part of life and nothing happens that isn't supposed to happen. I learned to be able to enjoy living life for myself long ago. Connections are nice but you're weak if you depend on them. And it's only hubristic gays who want to live forever that feel bad about their way of life not sticking around for eternity.
Except I always like new things. So I don't have to worry about that. Had a fun conversation with am 8 year old about Minecraft.
Thanks I'm feeling more hopeful again after reading that.
>minecraft
>new
I suggest you reevaluate your perspective on where you stand in time.
>Is being your own witness not sufficient?
be thankful the sound of your own loneliness has yet to ring in your own ears yet. Maybe then you'll also be able to hear your judgement, too.
Clearly you do not understand your biggest racing opponent is your self. To that end you can be your own witness and revel in those victories. If you need others to praise what you've done you will never be fulfilled.
because muh resale value.
I hope the niche cars I like crash in price even if the one I own looses all of its value.
Anyone who restores a car and is in anyway concerned with resell value or profit is a complete moron and I fricking hate them. Selling beautiful cars to wrenchlet gays
Welcome to boomer 101.
They don't seem too angsty about it, if anything this is depressing reality for boomers.
They lived through a peak event, and know what they already know about the end. It's best they just live in the moment still and continue. Holding on to the past will never give them back those highs, looking forward will only make them possibly more depressed as they try to figure out an exit plan literally and figuratively, and then that slow realization that you're not going to make other people like something like that just because. Or even if they did, would they like what they wish for? Do they want hypebeasts all over their relics?
It's bittersweet but it sounds like it's something they can take to the grave with them if it was such a big deal in their life.
No shit the younger gens don’t “appreciate them”, they’re charging a moronic premium on what is most likely a total hunk of shit that spends more time being garage boomer eye candy than actually being driven since the damn thing would kill itself if it was.
Boomers spent their entire lives still acting like it was the 60’s-70’s decades after the fact, and are now slowly but surely coming to how the world of today is. It gets even worse if you live in an area thats just hell in general for cars. Young people can barely manage renting, how the hell are they supposed to pay the boomer tax on vehicles half a century old by now?
>are now slowly but surely coming to how the world of today is
>boomer boss tells me hes glad he isn't going to live much longer with the state of the world and economy
>he finally acknowledged that he lived in the most prosperous time for the average american worker after listening to him ramble about politics and "muh bootstraps" for the last decade
>they’re charging a moronic premium on what is most likely a total hunk of shit that spends more time being garage boomer eye candy than actually being driven
For real, I would absolutely kill to have a 1st or 2nd gen Mustang to care for and do a few upgrades on but because everyone that owns them is convinced some moneybags mcgee is gonna wander up to their house and offer them top dollar for theirs because they saw some rare special edition pristine example barn find auction for six figures. So they're perfectly content letting them rot and driving them 5 miles once a summer rather than let somebody that would treat it like it was a family member enjoy it for even a semi-reasonable price. Even my dad admits he's kind of over his '72 Mustang and wants to sell it but wont let me lay a finger on it, drives it once a year tops, and will only accept top dollar for what was really just a mass produced sport coupe at the time.
They lived in a different world. They grew and made mistakes and became rigid in a world that's now long gone. Values become intangible and as even the healthiest of them begin to feel their senescence, so does the collective soul of their generation begins the decay. They may not be able to articulate the ethereal degradation into nothingness that their collective experiences, but they can surely feel it. Soon all that will be left of them will be relics of their world and snippets of their life in articles and informative media, hoping that their emotions, their struggles, their qualia can be captured just enough so that those in the future can say: here the boomers were, where we are now, with their rusty shitboxes and lead-addled minds.
Boomers are stupid and they thought these cars would carry them into retirement by auctioning for 100 billion dollars in 2030. They don’t like the fact they wasted their lives on a depreciating asset that their kids will just scrap when they die from the Beetuz
>Boomers are stupid and they thought these cars would carry them into retirement by auctioning for 100 billion dollars in 2030
the wages of sin are death. boomers are the manifestation of the sin of greed, and now they will watch the death of their world and the material things that they coveted so aggressively. unfortunately, we will still be around to clean up the mess.
>I'll just build my basic b***h 2012 Challenger R/T ans be happy with it.
>being happy with what you have
based. much harder done than said, but I am also trying to live that way.
thats what happens when you dont drive your car
guess the car
These could have been posted here.
>muh V8
>muh RWD
>muh iPad
there would be a huge interest in mid 60 - late 70s muscle cars if the prices weren't so astronomical. they're the ones fricking up the demand since they're using them as speculation/investment vehicles, so when they die off and the market gets flooded with cudas and 442s and shit tons of people from younger generations will snatch them up and take care of them, just at much more reasonable prices. like look at this mother fricker. i would love to have one of these, just not for the $40k+ they go for. but at that price they're just not even on my radar and i put them out of my mind completely.
They seem to know this themselves; that they are the reason the cars cost money. Even worse, they know when they're gone, their most valuable possessions will lose their worth, and they hate it.
if anyone knows a boomer with a car like this, cozy up to him now. he knows his kids are just gonna fence the car for scraps on ebay once he's gone. old farts like this would leave you shit they care about in their will if they know you'll care for it and appreciate it half as much as they did.
It's kinda depressing but I feel like my dad doesn't really have anything he particularly cares about.
When he dies there's nothing I'd look at and go
>ah yeah, that's what dad used to love...
I'll keep some of the stuff like his military medals and swords. But everything else is just consumables. I don't even think he even has a hobby, just watches TV and takes care of the grandkids.
Sounds like my pops, its either work or go home and stare at the TV & play skyrim till he passes out. kinda based
>>ah yeah, that's what dad used to love...
>and takes care of the grandkids.
???
>American reading comprehension
Guys only about 15 years behind the times saying "60s and 70s era muscle cars are gonna be a hot market".
I bet this guy thinks he's got a really hot tip buying up stock of this company called Netflix, too.
>completely fail to instill anything in your children
>let them raise themselves on goyslop television
>kick their ass out the door at 18
>reverse mortgage your home so they never get frick all from you
>act shocked when they hate everything about you and everything you enjoy
boomers.exe
yes it's sad, but in most cases they did it to themselves
>be about to kick the bucket
>only give a frick about the heckin price of their cars after they're gone
I know they're not all like that but, man, c'mon
holy frick anon, I came here to shitpost, not to feel. consider that capped
This
Saw a 1967 impala fastback on craigslist.
Black on red leather, 4spd manual, bigger crate motor with ~50k miles. Guy wanted 40 thousand fricking dollars and it still sold (or he dropped the listing)
It's tempting but I know pre '75 car prices are asinine and not worth it in 99% of cases unless you've a little nostalgia boner for something specific
they will only go up. you will never get one cheap.
This generation of Charger/Roadrunner/Satillite/GTX has grown on me so much as of late. Well it's been gradually happening since burn notice but lately I've been thinking more and more about them. That said the prices aren't that horrible on them at least near me sure they won't be perfect unlike the one you posted but I've seen running driving not completely clapped out ones with 318s and 340s, and even a couple 440s in the 10-20k range cheaper if you're willing to put in a bit of work.
Get good sheet metal above all. Drivetrain parts are easy to manage.
>they're the ones fricking up the demand since they're using them as speculation/investment vehicles
In fairness you are talking about 50 or 60 year old cars
The problem with those is maintenance. Do you think moronic zoomers would work on their own cars?
Just yesterday I drove my '66 T-Bird through a little roundabout where a couple of what seemed like high school kids were having a car meet. A few lifted trucks and some sort of heavily modded JDM hatchback. Every single one of them turned and stared at my car with wide eyes and grins. Earlier that same day when I was pulling out of a parking lot some other kid filmed my start-up and drive-off. The interest is there, it's just that people don't think those cars are within their reach, so they rarely even look up the prices let alone try to buy them.
Don't kid yourself. They'll all just wind up rotting away or in the hands of ~~*collectors*~~ that will eternally gatekeep them. homosexuals like Dennis Collins and Richard Rawlings will keep the inflation alive, perpetuating the pipeline of barnfinds to millionaires' garages. The best we can hope for is that less desireable models will decrease slightly in value. You'll never own a GTX and I'll never own a Charger. If we're lucky, though? Maybe a Duster with a seized 318 will pop up for five grand.
Hate to be the blackpiller on this, but it's just the way shit is. I'm a Ramcharger enthusiast and have owned four of them (and two first gen cummins trucks). I've never bought one for more than two grand. For a long, long time they haven't been desireable enough to warrant much more cost. However, the Broncos and Blazers have all been bought up and overinflated. You ain't finding a 318 Ramcharger with a clean title for less than 4k these days. I'm not the ons driving that, either. I have never sold one for more than I spent on it and I've never gatekept them.
m*par gays have always been delusional. You can get get a high optioned BOP A body for under 20k.
>under $20k
You realize for most people, let alone young people, that's an insane amount of money to drop un-financed, right? That's 3-4 non-Mopar classics. That's two fully-restored Fords. That's a downpayment on a 3-bedroom house.
>not having 20k cash
I'm not a college graduate and have saved up that much cash in 2 years without going spartan. Just don't get married or have kids.
If you only have $20k saved then you can't afford a $20k classic car. It will have electrical issues, suspension issues, body rust, and unless it was recently rebuilt (which it won't have been for $20k) early-stage engine and/or transmission failure. A $20k classic car is really a $30k+ classic car, and that's without factoring in the fact that (You) still have to eat and pay bills. You're severely underestimating what goes into maintaining a 60's/70's car.
>t. owns one
>high optioned
A 383 is not high optioned and is objectively worse than a 360 car. 340s, 413s, 426s (wedge and hemi), and 440s are all ludicrously expensive. None of those cars will go for 20k unless the engine is seized or the body is in such horrific shape that it's almost unsalvageable. Within 250 miles of me, there is a 68 Super Bee and a 69 Charger both for sale for over 20k and they don't even have glass, let alone a drivetrain, axles, or a fricking interior. Otherwise, there is a single 71 Charger with a 318 and a horrifically rotten body that the guy wants 6k for.
It's not delusion. It's reality. Mopar Boomers are some of the most ridiculous gatekeepers in the entire automotive world. These motherfrickers are trying to sell clapped, slant 6 D100s for 10k and they'll either get what they want or let them rot.
This is delusion. I've spent enough money on one of my Ramcharger projects to have bought one of the decent condition, low optioned Chargers and I'm a 32. I also own three modern Mopars (a Challenger, Wrangler, and Ram) that could have been a Charger instead. The reality is that 20k for a 318 roller I have to dump 20k more into to be an unreliable weekend car is moronic. That's not reasonable and the car would still be worse in every single category than my 12 year old R/T. I have a mortgage to pay and loftier ambitions than having a neat old car I can drive around town. I want to do off roading, racing, and a lot of other shit 20k would take me further with in other vehicles.
I'm firmly upper middle class and do exceptionally well for myself. I'm just reasonable.
Anon I was saying that mopar gays are delusional about how much cars are worth and getting a decent Buick GS for under 20k isn't that bad.
Mea culpa. I read A Body and assumed you meant Mopar since I mentioned Dusters. You're right, though. There's plenty of comparable classic cars that are more reasonable than any given Mopar. The problem is that a GS 455 is not nearly as cool as a Charger or a Coronet and it doesn't have a Mopar V8.
I can appreciate a 455 all day. I wouldn't ever own one, though. I'm a Mopargay and I want my Mopar cars with their Mopar engines and their Mopar problems.
For guys like me, there is no solution. I'l never have a B Body and I've accepted that. Boomers have ensured that reality. Instead, I'll just build my basic b***h 2012 Challenger R/T ans be happy with it. My original point was just to say that's the better option than seething about the market and having unrealistic expectations for a post-Boomer world.
Maybe classic Mopars will literally become unobtainium and that's fine. It is what it is. Suck it up and find something else. Maybe buy a GS 455 or a Ramcharger and explore those routes instead. Build a Gen 3 Hemi car. Maybe just scroll on over to a non-blue board and drown your sorrows in cuck porn since being a Mopargay is basically being NTR'd for cars.
Sorry Mopar bro, but you are absolutely screwed. My brother bought a 69 cornet convertible 15 years ago and still hasn't been able to restore it because of scalpers. He has basically given up on the project and it just sits in storage.
I'm a pontiac fan, cars and parts are much cheaper. I was able to get this 455 HO 1970 GTO for a fraction of the price Mopar boomers want and I was able to completely restore my 78 firebird for under 15k, most of that cost was paint and the bodywork.
I personally don't think Mopar are that good looking so I guess it's easy for me to say just find another car you like, but that's probably your best bet.
Sweet car, anon. Glad you've got something you love and didn't get caught in the pit I have. You are right, though. It's why I own the cars I do. I've got a classic Mopar in my Ramcharger and a Muscle Car in my newer Challenger. That's good enough for me, despite my doomerposting.
I encourage most Mopargays looking for classic muscle to just buy 80s D150s. You get all the performance without the exhorbitant costs. It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than nothing.
Parts scalpers are a fricking plague on the community, I've been trying to get parts for my 1980 Honda CB650 and everything is extremely expensive because some old bastard bought up all the spares 10 years ago and cornered the market
You should see the harley market, it's a bunch of shady gen x gays buying up all the parts from eBay and eachother then upcharging them by 4x the price on chopperswapper.
Greedy homosexuals the lot of them
A friend of mine has a modern Sportster (2015?) and he's going direct to Harley for parts and work because it's cheaper going directly to Harley than it is buying spares and doing the work himself. I can only imagine how bad it is with the older bikes
My brother has 17k into one bike trying to retore it to stock condition.
An absolutely beautiful Buick GS 455, a car that runs a stock 13.3 1/4 mile for around 30k, and I bet you could knock him to 28. A Mopar in a similar class would be 70k to 100k at auction all day. It's ridiculous. >marketplace/item/792080442312233/?mibextid=dXMIcH
>Upper middle class
So you're already economically above most youth getting into cars? I feel you might need to think a class lower.
I was born into poverty in a rural southern state in the bottom ten for education. I didn't obtain my level of wealth until relatively recently and it took the better part of a decade's intense work to get here.
My point was:
>That anon was delusional about how far 20k can take you.
>20k isn't unrealistically achievable for older millenials.
Then I followed up by stating that, despite these two points, spending that 20k on a shitbox in need of exponentially more investment is moronic. "You spent so long asking if you could that you never asked yourself if you should." Speaking as someone that has that level of expendable income, I know that classic car ownership is a game for the exhorbitantly wealthy, not for me or anyone less well off than me. I apologize for not being sufficiently cogent in those points.
Also, Zoomers aren't people and shouldn't be treated like they are.
>Zoomers aren't people
Neither are milennials and the middle class yet we have to pretend.
>That anon was delusional about how far 20k can take you.
Not delusional at all. You can get shoeboxes, compacts, wagons, and yesteryear economy cars for $5-7k on Craigslist and FBM. I got my 90% complete 60's classic for $8k. The median house downpayment is $26k. Twenty thousand dollars is a LOT of money and can REALLY stretch.
Idk what it is but satellites and roadrunners just look so cool and I don't even like a ton of cars from that era
this.
same reason I don't give a frick about super cars. even if I made 5 million a year I'd never justify getting a 600,000$ two seater that I can't drive without worrying about being robbed and costs 50,000$ a year to operate.
I know I'll never get one, so why be interested in it.
these old V8s are cool but they have less functionality than a 20,000 dealership floor Nissan and a slower 0 to 60 than a 30,000 kia.
>Blese bold B8s are bool but bey babe Bess bunctionality ban a B0,000 bealership bloor Bissan band a blower B to B0 ban a B0,000 bia
is this cope or seethe?
Neither. I own you now.
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The cars are like 60 years old are you people moronic.
You want a car that's 60, 70, 80 years old in DRIVEABLE condition for the price of a common shitbox.
Of course, most don't even want that - they want examples that are near mint like in pictures. For a car older than Vietnam.
Most cars are scrapped or end up in a ditch somewhere 20 years after production, and they're in garbage condition by then.
Accounting for rust, parts, body panels, wiring, engines, glass... On a 60 year old car.
This fricking moron thinks 40k is expensive . What the frick.
My car is from 2008 and while it rides well, I frequently have minor accidents.
People thinking cars from the 60s in good condition should cost 10-20k should go to a mental hospital along with trannies.
>My car is from 2008 and while it rides well, I frequently have minor accidents
Yeah, Black person.
Do you even have a car? Probably not.
Probably don't even drive. Probably don't even have a daily to go to town or on trips.
Probably don't even know anything.
moron.
>getting this assblasted
>implying
yeah. youre a bad driver and a gay.
nocar, got it
>everyone who disagrees with me doesnt have a car
stay mad moron
>People thinking cars from the 60s in good condition should cost 10-20k should go to a mental hospital along with trannies.
Except many of them literally DO cost this much in drivable, presentable condition, which is why people think it's absurd that the rusted-out shell of a Challenger goes for double that. I wasn't kidding when I said I bought a nearly-complete 60's V8 for $8k.
I can get a running and driving car from 1980 for under $10k. Logically a car 20 years older than that in good condition may cost more but it shouldn't be $25k for a rolling shell. these guys are going to be so stubborn they will cause the cars they themselves supposedly love to end up being crushed instead of in the hands of people who will drive them and take care of them
There's a video out there of some brainrotted boomer crushing a '69 Charger because he didn't get the price he wanted for it. Didn't even part it out. Just crushed it out of spite. Engine, panels, everything. All gone.
Someone did this with a split bumper camaro because people were "lowballing" him (he wanted 90k)
It's even worse in the Charger case. The frickhead bought it to flip it. Purchased it for $4k and wanted to sell it for double the amount. I hope the geriatric frick dies from the most painful heart attack of all time.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/10/31/man-angry-at-lowballers-destroys-dodge-charger/
hopefully he burns in hell for eternity tbqh
>I can get a running and driving car from 1980 for under $10k
lol of course. it's from 1980. the very thought of a car from that time period makes boomers wince in pain.
>there would be a huge interest in mid 60 - late 70s muscle cars if the prices weren't so astronomical. they're the ones fricking up the demand since they're using them as speculation/investment vehicles, so when they die off and the market gets flooded with cudas and 442s and shit tons of people from younger generations will snatch them up and take care of them, just at much more reasonable prices. like look at this mother fricker. i would love to have one of these, just not for the $40k+ they go for. but at that price they're just not even on my radar and i put them out of my mind completely.
When the boomers go, as do the astronomical prices.
No they won't if you guys think these fully analog cars will get cheap in a world of EVs and electronic nanny bullshit, lane keep assist, supercruise and your personal electronics spying on you and invading every single aspect of your life and the government having more and more overreach via your electronic devices, you are clinically moronic.
Once EVs become the norm anything with a carb (as long as it isn't outlawed) will skyrocket in price. 69 Camaro Z28 doesn't have a Beijing back door and the market will reflect that. Millennials don't want new cars.
this theoretical market you're referring to is known as 'preppers' and trust me when i tell you they're not going to be spending money on overpriced hemi cudas.
But old truck prices are eternally screwed
Okay Boomer
So you mean anything prior to the 2010s?
That's a much larger market than just 60s muscle cars
Millennials aren't mechanics so they cannot care about what they do not understand and never experienced. That era is fading like those before it.
They're really quite easy to work on but they weren't considered cool back then.
I have 0 sympathy for boomers for the economic environment they have created with these cars. They will confidently advertise their 1960 Mustang ShartMart Edition that is essentially an unfinished, burned out, rusted "RAN WHEN PARKED" shell for $25k and wonder why people don't give a shit. Then, completed examples go for well over 6 figures at auction (which are only bought by other boomers) and are usually garage queens that come out 2 days a year to the local geriatric meet, where the cars cough, splutter, leak and stink their way through the parking lots. They are completely distant to how the current world operates, it's economy and people's interests, and they refuse to modernise. I hate zoomers equally the same, but for many different reasons, but the boomer's delusion of "why doesn't everyone like what I like?" is tiresome.
Sounds like they are buttholes who know what they got and are asking for too much. This is just cope and seethe about them not being able to retire off selling thier daily driver.
classic car prices will never go down.
boomers may die out in 15-20 years.
but GenXers are every bit as horrible as Bookers are.
and GenX loves old muscle cars.
>Grabbed a '66 mustang coupe out of the desert
>Thought I paid too much
>currently going for 15 grand for similar condition coupe.
Lucky me, I guess.
This. People are underestimating how easy it is to google the price of a car that you've inherited. As soon as whomever gets the car as a hand-me-down actually looks up the car they're going to list it for the same price that everyone else is listing it for, because why the frick wouldn't they? The same thing is happening this very day. Boomers have been kicking the bucket for years and yet car prices haven't been going down. Why? Because whomever gets the car just googles the current prices and then lists them for that, simple as. The amount of "selling my widow's car, idk what it is, you can have it for $2000" listing that turn out to be Hemi Cudas or Boss Mustangs or Ford GT Fastbacks is going to be negligible.
I wanted to call you guys fricking moronic for having optimism about car prices but the truth is much more sad. Everyone and their mother is a speculator now, I was hoping to get a Krag rifle for a reasonable price as that generation died off and the price has only increased significantly.
Glad I liked shitty old Hondas because good luck finding a deal on a fricking civic of all things.
>CRX pricing is 7.5k for a beater shitbox
>survivor Si models go for double or more
Feels bad, man.
my friend got an all original HF model for $500 last year. The interior was all there too. Stock suspension parts, original A/C. I tried to convince him to restore it and not swap it with a B-series and turn it into a race car, but he ended up doing just that and now it's a real pile of shit. Interior is all cut up and the original engine+trans got donated to the crackhead that did the swap. He regrets it now, but I can't find an HF on marketplace for less than 5K...
It’s called sunset nostalgia and it’s very common on 2000s era forums. Model trains, 2 strokes, electronic circuits, pirate radio etc will die like other hobbies did. It’s a truth of life, sure I’ll be sad too when all the communities have dried up but that’s life and it was fun while it lasted
God I never even considered how the model train folks are coping. Or any of the other really fogey hobbies. At least cars continue to play a large part of our lives and are somewhat relatable, model train enthusiasts are in a whole other world.
I often seen model train display meet ups advertised, I might go to one just to see
What hobbies do you think have totally perished?
>how the model train folks are coping.
Nta, I bet those poor fricks are getting just assblasted by prices. The bespoke ultra high quality stuff doesn't sell at all and I'm sure the prices have been jacked up five fold. I knew a guy in highschool who was into that stuff and even a decade+ ago it was already heading that way
If you go to a meet and aren't drooling through your teeth with your mother pushing you around they'll be STOKED to see a newfren, even if you're very clear about just being curious and wanting to look at collections
There is a place near me that puts on a couple of public days throughout the year. Skews older, some silent generation still left and a handful of guys in their 30s. It seems to have skipped late boomers and all of gen x. I always thought model trains were cool but they were already overpriced in the 1990s. I shit a brick when I saw how expensive even the Chinese R/C cars have become.
>I shit a brick when I saw how expensive even the Chinese R/C cars have become.
Nah, it's better now that even 10 years ago even if you don't adjust for inflation
My dad is a "late" boomer born in '55 and trains were not cool anymore by his childhood, slot car racers were.
phreaking? still a thing with VOIP phones etc. but doesn't seem to be as common/well known as it once was
my late uncle was a railway man his whole life, worked on trains, got high up in British Rail, built model trains from kits (soldered the motors up and everything), the man lived and breathed trains.
When he died in 2011 his 2 year old grandson inherited it all, via his daughter. It's all set up in their loft still and the grandson now has a epic RGB gaymer set up next the train set, where he plays Train Simulator. I don't think the set gets used at all any more but the hobby survives in other ways.
>my late uncle was a railway man his whole life, worked on trains
trains is a hard job
When I was a kid you could get starter train sets very cheap so you could buy 2 or more to do a kit bash and make a big set up. I haven't seen a train set sold in stores for many years. Parents don't want to buy their kids toys, just sit them in front of an app.
About 70 mph but they make you do ridiculous inspections even on cars from the 70's. The rules state you can only check cars for certain criteria but the greasy mechanics will deliberately fail cars trying to get business out of you for things like minor surface rust which they will offer to repair for ripoff prices. Its a real battle to get old cars registered. They did this to forced people into new cars to help the industry that no longer exists.
thats nice, they don't care at all about their grandchildren suffering
These are the real enthusiast cars that are truly in danger of being sent to the junkyard by the uncaring wife or zoomer who gets it.
Boomers are responsible for junking so many muscle cars. I had many relatives in the 80s buy muscle cars and for whatever reason the engine gets pulled out and the body rusts then its just sent to the junk yard.
Another thing I've seen is boomer junkyard owner who will send a pretty good classic into the junkyard and will not sell it to you no matter what.
>Parents don't want to buy their kids toys, just sit them in front of an app.
they do buy toys, but it's throwaway goyslop garbage from goys Я us. same plastic shite as everywhere else. If you go to second hand stores, you can often find cool older toys. I got a bunch of 1970s era fisher price shit for my kid that obviously found its way to value village after Grandpa died and his shitty kids dumped his entire life in a dumpster. No train sets though, that is the domain of boomer hoarders.
that they are old and slow is fine, but the price part is moronic. you can see in their attitudes that they are still in 1975 and refuse to leave it. Tell them that a 5 year old camry will rape their yank tank and they lose their shit.
Trains, Wargaming, Modeling in general is undergoing a sort of genesis and transformation. The old shit, the rare shit, the idea of "Scarcity" is going away as 3d scanning and modeling improves. Some dudes are bitter, and some dudes are excited, but the hobby is 100% changing. The relics of "Whole room" train sets are pretty fricked, but wargamers have occasionally given those second lives.
Its interesting to watch the churn. Even pirate radio and electronics are giving way to Networking nerds and PCB hobbyist engineering. There are some really cool projects involving grey and black global networks.
Its very easy to see it as doom, but its sort of a destructive testing process, and anyone who doesn't want to get with the times is within their right to fade away and share their history to any who wish to hear.
>Wargaming
I know that feel. It's just me and my bro playing 6th ed 40k. At least bfg hasn't been updated in over a decade.
>Whole room train sets
Wouldn't the advent of 3D printing, a spike in interest and lowering costs via 3D printing make it theoretically possible for this concept to never truly die?
>make it theoretically possible for this concept to never truly die?
yeah, but young people have been ~~*priced out of a home*~~ so they have no space for that
N gauge was born long ago because apartments.
All your "classic" cars (rube goldberg machines) will be turned into scrap metal to build EVs, gd willing.
and EVs will be parted put to build the giant mechanical crushing machines all the leftist gays and eco israelites will be thrown into-- the time is coming pal
Unironically have a nice day Black person
Your rube israeliteberg machine will burn your house down and I will laugh at you
When the rug pull happens (and it will it always does) all you EV Black folk will get shafted by an unlubed Dildo
Most corvair people are silent generation/early boomers.
They are all thrilled when a younger person is interested in corvairs. Plenty of help with issues and sourcing parts. All of them are very friendly and want to pass the baton to the next generation of enthusiasts.
Corvairs seem to be about the only affordable classic left, tbh
I routinely see clean examples for less than $5k. One guy has a running and driving 1961 coupe that's been listed for MONTHS at $4k and hasn't sold. It's not even a rust bucket either.
It's crazy how totally undesirable they are
I think it's a combination of them being an a typical 60s car and the perceived difficulty of working on them that keeps them proced so low. Also the fact that they made 2 million of them, mostly in the sport package.
>RR layout on a typically long american frame
It's a complete mystery my dude.
They are a unibody car and are actually quite small.
I'll thank your grand kids when I pick up your 1971 440 road runner for pennies.
cars as a hobby will never go away as long as gasoline exists. some things like old trains or radios may possibly not outlast boomers. maybe. all you need is to find some way to convince 20-40 year old hipsters to get into model trains.
Come on bubs let's ship bong tokes back and forth.
Lmao i won't have this problem because I just like to race them. Zero shits given if any one else like it in the future. We don't go around racing model ts now do we? These boomers just cruise in their classics. But tbh I do respect their era, just wouldn't own one my self but if I get the chance I'm buying my mom a 68 fast back with the big block.
>We don't go around racing model ts now do we?
i wonder if goodwood revival has model t races
>Anyone else ever visit boomer-tier car forums and get really depressed?
they get what they deserve. people would be interested in these cars if those complete and utter tards didnt artificially drive up the prices of them so much. 95% of boomers cars that are moronic expensive arent even worth half of what theyre asking and if people cant afford them they will naturally forget about them and move on to something actually affordable.
This. Had two boomer homosexuals do this with prewar cars I wanted; one was at $9k with him getting the title. After 6 months, he couldn't get it and expected me to "honor our agreement" to which I told him I'd only buy it at $7,500 now because I'd be paying around $1,500 to Vermont title it; back when you could, or jump through the hoops of a bonded title. He huffed and fumed about how "your generation doesn't understand what someone's word means" and how "It's a Pierce-Arrow it's worth it!" I hit him with the old "We agreed on $9k with a title. I'd pay that if you could honor your part of the agreement. I also know you paid $6k for it because I found the listing of the estate you bought it from." He was not happy.
Another boomer frick had one listed for $10k, delivered from CA to Hershey, PA in the fall if paid for prior to delivery. I asked him about it and found out it had modified headlights (pic related,) no gas tank, and needs the wood wheels redone (a $5k job) so I asked him his best price to meet in Oklahoma City with the car on his way. His response was that, after looking over the car, he thinks he should be charging more so he's firm at $10k before he ups the price to $12k and that he'd have to calculate delivery cost on top of it. I curtly ended the call before I yelled at his fricking idiot ass.
These are both sedans that are in project condition with the undesirable flathead I6; Pierce's first "economy car" in the field and restored convertibles don't bring in $40k.
I'll be waiting to buy the cars off eBay, BaT, or wherever their kids/grandkids list the car for the NEW market price.
Had similar shit happen with a harley
>boomer has 68 sportster listed for 3k
>both agree on the price
>drive out 8 hours to pick it up
>6 hours in I get a call from him
>he was drinking with his buddies and they said it was worth at least 6 so that's the price now
it took everything I had to not drive the remaining 2 hours just to strangle him.
That was the same feeling I had when on the phone with those two individuals. That they could wholeheartedly think that I was going to go along with it because I was.younger is asinine.
The irony is that their gatekeeping has been a large factor in the decline in popularity and value of their possessions. I've never lusted after supercars because they were out of my financial means to own and enjoy. I might be qble to scrape together the funds for a million-dollar car if I sold everything else I owned and lived in a dilapidated shack, but there would still be maintenance and insurance costs. When even "normal" cars like a hemi 'Cuda get written off in such a manner, then the demand drops because the point of a collector car is, for those who are not on the level of Jay Leno, to be able to enjoy and enhance our lives; not to be slaves to.
My father has a motorcycle he's a slave to that, despite being exposed to it my whole life, I'd barely ever seen it used by him and only used it a handful of times, myself. Apparently it belonged to John A. Davidson and is some prototype bike worth more than his house that he keeps in the living room as a show piece. When I inherit it, I'm going to ride it.
>When I inherit it, I'm going to ride it.
Based. Even Jay Leno agrees that if you own functional automotive history, it's your duty as the owner to go out and enjoy it. They were meant to be run, to bring joy and utility to the owners, not sit in an air conditioned room and be rubbed with a diaper while the carbs gum to shit and the hoses rot.
>moron is going to lose 6 figures to get back at his dad
You know people can use a vehicle without it losing value, right?
Imagine glorifying the former property of non family. What causes this cuckoldry?
I get that it has some significance since John A. Davidson is a descendent of the founding Davidson family and they bought the company back from AMF to build the bikes the boomers love. It's like saying "Edsel Ford's personal roadster" and means something to boomers.
some anon a while back had a screenshot of a zuckbook group with some boomer selling his old car for an unsurprisingly high amount with absolutely no information beyond one photo. some user asked for another info and the seller just replies 'im not going to repeat myself over and over on here, you can call me on <mobile number here> if you really want more info'
and if you weren't pissed off by the amount of entitlement already on display, some other homosexual adds to this with 'you should know that people prefer talking over the phone blah blah blah'
i always wondered if someone used the number to sign up to random bullshit just to frick with him
>I actually prefer email Mr Boomer, is that okay?
>*registers name, number, and email with NAMBLA*
At least you dodged an Ironhead. No way I'd drive 8 hours for a 900. They're pretty but when reliable motorbikes showed up they vanished from the roads. That much money would get a cone Shovel instead. IH are what people who would have rather bought a big twin bought instead after they were superannuated as sport bikes. For one to ride if you must get '73 up cases as they take the thicker more common 1000cc jugs and if you like the old 900 cam cover and magneto you can install those (line ream the cam cover bushings, takes a special tool) on the 1000. The old 900s have weak cases because of the stupid transmission drive speedo though some machine a ring to press then weld in place. Another bonus is title passes with frame on post-1970 HDs not engine cases so a titled frame gets you engine choice.
xlforum has some very nice Evos done up to look like the classic Ironheads and they pull it off nicely, some even with frame or Ironhead back half frame swaps. The five-speed Evo does all the things Sportster do well without leaving you on the roadside.
http://xlforum.net/forums/showthread.php?p=5335625
Find out beforehand what it actually is. Many things HD played with were garbage best sold off.
Big twins were and remain viable dailys if you wrench but many "collector" bikes are really quite shit best dumped on someone with too much money. Then spend the money on an HD that's actually good. Vintage aftermarket parts are popular upgrades for owners who want to ride theirs. See Chop Cult and Jockey Journal for some of the last living original builders. They're worth reading.
dont even get me fricking started on trying to buy anything off subhumans that are boomers. ive been looking on and off for a c4 corvette for a while now and only actual wrecks are below €9k while everything else thats driveable from the get go is way above €14k. theres also the complete "1 out of 69 super speciul colour" or some other kind of rarity moronation that drives up the price in the mind of a boomer. at this rate ill be priced out of buying one if those morons keep this up. not even going to go into trying to buy parts for my probe and old subhuman farts just straight up stop replying after telling me they have the part or just ignoring me completely in the first place.
Come to America.
A 14k Euro C4 is going to be a Collectors Edition '96 or at least a manual LT4
A decent 92-95 6spd is $7-12k
It's only because you're in Europe because even boomers in the C4 Facebook groups fully admit their cars are worth as much as a candy wrapper and a used piece of gum and that they made 15k coupes a year
>Come to America
i was considering this and it would be pretty easy but i like the land here and id feel bad about abandoning it. absolutely loathe the people though. regardless i know why theyre priced like that but im still omega mad they arent half as much because that would be a reasonable price for them. moronic boomers and corvette tards wont have it though because muh speciul cool car club.
I mean you could just buy it and pay
$2000 extra so it goes on a boat over to Europe
Like this one on Facebook, he would probably take $5500-6000
/marketplace/item/783986556842636/?mibextid=dXMIcH
import fees and the import israelites would probably absolutely demolish me though because i dont have the time nor energy to be fricking around with importing it on my own.
Just look into it it can't be that bad if Scandis and Eastern Euros constantly do it
>Just look into it
i did. it depends but it mostly costs the same as local cars but local cars i can at least actually check out in person. this is my biggest issue with importing.
Buy a expensive one ($10k+), go fly to America (Florida or NYC area are good for used vettes + close to eastern ports like Port Newark and Port of Savannah that constantly have ships sailing to Europe). I really don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be unless you are in Italy or France. Those two countries have displacement taxes and restrictive customs. I know Germany is very easy to import cars into.
Alternatively try to reconnect with any family members that live here.
Used C4s are pretty easy to buy, the shit ones are worth nothing and the expensive ones are usually boomer babies. It's actually easier to find one than a nice Camaro/Firebird that was driven into the ground and the rest turned into 1/4 mile cars. Personally though I'd be hard split between a '96-'97 SS and a '92-'95 C4 6spd, maybe I'd go for the car in a fun color like a yellow, purple, bright blue, or teal.
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marketplace/item/236159405999290/?mibextid=dXMIcH
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why do Americans make big deal out of importing cars in 25 years when most every country has some kind of terribly brain damaged automotive legislation on the books?
Because other than the 25 year rule we have states with no rules on safety inspections (Michigan) or even titles (Vermont)
I know nearby Quebec is surprisingly bad and France is one of the worst European c**ts to enjoy cars
>It's actually easier to find one than a nice Camaro/Firebird
honestly i wanted a firebird but they are near impossible to find here. i mean there are a bunch of v6s but who cares about those
>'92-'95 C4 6spd
im looking for the pre 1990 ones because i want the atari dash
Look for a 1989 then, they should be close to $10k for a absolutely mint one with a manual, but I like the LT1 more. 1987-89 for digi dash and L98 if you're okay with automatic. 1990 was the first year of the analog dash.
It's almost 50whp between a L98 and LT1. LT1 has a really nice exhaust note too.
>if you're okay with automatic
oh yeah i dont mind autotragic. ive had enough fun rowing through gears with my other car.
>It's almost 50whp between a L98 and LT1
i dont mind this one either although if there are some moronproof bolt ons for the l98 id get them
>i like the land here
USA has infinite "land"/climate choice to match whatever locale you prefer, and land is affordable outside urban hellholes best avoided by motorcyclists. There are many areas where you can pretty much disappear in flyover country and be properly let alone.
i should have been more specific. besides the land i also like the culture and history. i would feel bad leaving all that behind. not to mention my parents.
>Culture
Most culture in the world has been getting ruined and thrown in the trash for progressive bullshit. But your parents are important so you do you.
>straight up stop replying after telling me they have the part or just ignoring me completely in the first place
story of my life on zuckbook marketplace. the read receipts just add insult to injury
I had a boomer pull that title shit on a bike. He listed it and I talked to him and he kept saying "salvage title" what he really meant was bill of sale and good luck at the dmv.
When I wanted the price dropped by at least the cost of getting the title sorted he went on the typical boomer lecture of how young people don't know the value of a man's word, with an Orwellian level of delusion completely putting aside how he was the dishonest one in the first place.
Honestly when I think of how everything went to shit after the boomers its really their whole "do as I say not as I do" mentality. It completely broke the intergenerational values baton pass. Their own kids couldn't take them or what they spouted seriously.
I hate the hypocrisy of boomers. If they don't have a title, it's no big deal. If you don't they expect it to be free.
I also hate that there's no easy path for titling vehicles over 50 years old.
Most people in general are utterly illiterate re:titles and can barely read so I interrogate them. I buy and sell quite a few vehicles and titles are not an age thing, most people are stupid.
I let one fool who failed to transfer title instantly and get a hard copy in hand (never not do this, even on organ donors because DMV systems drop titles now and then) sit with his truck for months before dropping the price. Now it's fine for a parts truck (I love cab swapping 1/2 ton cabs in good shape onto 1-ton chassis for low insurance low tax rulebeater trucks) but I'll let him dangle a bit more since I'm not shopping hungry.
There is in many states that do bonded titles but it's not standard. Magistrate titles are a little known option. Have dealer licensed friends.
boomers did this to themselves. the perfect "boomer" example of what there is to hate is "dennis collins" if you look him up on youtube he buys all types of different classics and jerks off to the most moronic of "options" that make the car supposedly worth more.
"This is a 1966 mustang coupe, even though they sold 10 million of them, this is the ONLY ONE that ford put a ham radio in and farted in the trunk. this should sell for 100000$ easily. "
My '66 LeBaron is like that; nearly $2k in options on a car from 1966. Still paid under $5k for it.
>dennis collins
>"that name sounds familiar"
>look him up
>it's Richard Rawling's frick buddy
Yeah no wonder he's like that. I blame shows like Fast n' Loud for fricking the market. They have caused this ridiculous notion that there is some custom shop out there that is going to take a rusted wreck of a car for 4 grand, restore it to mint and flip it for 40 grand.
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE
what killed phone phreaking was that phone systems went electronic in the 80s instead of the old-timey electromechanical ones
Boomers are like a swarm of locust, they eat everything until nothing's left
There's a classic car event that has been going on forever, and you're lucky if you get a boomer that wants to talk about their own car. For how much time and money spent on these things, you would think they would be passionate about it.
I've told this story a few times but I'll tell it again
>2015 or 16
>at a country show with a friend
>there's a bit of a show, 95% is farm machinery
>right up the back in the corner is a dozen or so classic cars
>Rover P5, Range Rover classic, usual British fare
>Spy a Porsche 911 with an old fella on a chair next to it
>Attempt to strike up a conversation about the car
>All of his responses are 1 or 2 words
>"Wow that's lovely, looks really well kept did you restore it or is she just a real survivor"
>>"just a survivor"
>Really! that's awesome have you owned her long?
>>"Bowt 12 year"
>Cool, my friend has a 76 or 77 he inherited from his grandpa but it needs a full restro
>>at this point he just sort of snorts and goes back to staring at his phone
>"Alright, I'll leave you to it mate, lovely car!"
>>he doesn't even respond
>wander 5 cars down and have a 20 minute conversation about a Mini that the fella built up from a bare shell
2 different personality types anon. Don't take it personally.
>drag your fricking garage queen or custom build/rebuild out to a show
>annoyed that people want to ask you about it
obviously people are different and shit, but why would you go through the whole song and dance of displaying something you're clearly proud/excited about and then not want to engage with someone interested in it. I don't get that aspect of it
>cars that can't brake turn or accelerate
And thats a good thing. Im sure that good cars will survive not boomer bait. I luv me a model t/a tho.
>It's so sad that I can't scam these kids out of $100,000 for my 1972 Slant 6 Cuda
>They just don't appreciate these things like they used to
>Too busy playin vidya games on the youtubes
It's like the corporate mentality except these boomers aren't corporate boomers, FASCINATING ISN'T IT??
I see the same thing with bmx bikes. no new kids are getting into the hobby, but lots of older dudes are getting out of the hobby. they have their bikes (and box of parts) listed for hundreds of dollars ($1000 to $3000 builds) but there is no one to buy them. then the bikes are put in storage and then one day the bikes and spare frames and wheelsets make their way to the landfill.
as interest in the cars dwindle, all the boomers holding onto project cars will refuse to lower the prices even though no one is buying them. then they die and the car gets scrapped.
All those sixties bicycles are going to crash harder than anything. Boomer bikes are crap, is insane what they pay.
In Australia the national speed limit is 55 mph and it is rigidly enforced. You have been warned.
They always post the most dumb shit too, like their geriatric dino-wife's pretending to wash the car like it's still 1958 and she's still got "it", even though they both know she hasn't. As does everyone else in the comments. But they'll pretend, for old time's sake.
>He loves his wife and still thinks she's beautiful even while they are both in their twilight years, knowing that one will see the other pass within their lifetime.
>Anon thinks this is cringe
get out of of thread you depressed boomer, you're bringing everyone down.
I hope you homosexuals know what it's like to be divorce raped in your 20's.
i hope you stop posting.
Meanwhile that homosexual is probably selecting his next 4 door sedan so he can put more prostitutes in his financed 3rd owner base model bmw or audi.
depressing, innit? anons focus on their decrepit age and not how long they've been loyal to one another. my grandparents were loyal to each other for 65 years. only through the dementia ridden rambles of them did i learn that it was true, not a single mention of cheating in those rambles about each other. in their final moments together they were totally lucid. it was too much for me
It's because 90% of this website is dissatisfied people. This is why anyone hate everything and everyone, yet more than any woman or minority they can shout about they hate happy people the most. It's all the same. Have fulfilling relationships? Hatred. Have an object you love? Hatred. A job you don't hate? Took a nice vacation? Something mildly nice happened to you on the way home? Hatred. It's all the same. Being terminally online with no social contact and nothing going on in your life rots the brain and DA is the proof. Only a demented psycho looks at a post of some guy posting about how much he loves his car and loves his wife and goes "man, what a fricking loser."
The intensity, disgust, and directness of this post reminds me of a friend I know. Kudos for having a brain.
uncalled for and rude
of all shit you could b***h about when it comes to boomers and their cars, you throw a fit over them loving their wives and still seeing them as beautiful?
if his wife dropped tomorrow he would be buying a 19 year old Pinoy mail order bride faster than you can say "Me sucky wrong time."
Whats with boomers projecting their issues on the younger generation?
MAYBE THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE VOTED FOR THEIR OWN DEATH WITH SHITTY FRICKING CAR REGULATIONS
Literally nothing about this has anything to do with them not being able to pass on their interests or their cars. If anything most of them should just suck it up and give the cars away, but they'll never do that because when they say "no one wants my car" they really want "no one wants my car at the market value I believe it should go for."
I'm sensing some hardcore copium that you're never going to be able to afford anything cool.
Don't worry, in 30 years some autistic kid is going to love your '98 Corolla because "da rust spots looks like chocolate ice cream hur hur hur"
OP seems to sympathize with them though; there's no indication that they're personally bitter about this.
>when we die they will lose their value and people who are interested will actually be able to afford them again
can they hurry up and die already?
this is gonna sound messed up but where do I meet boomers so when they pass on I can at least save their shit from just getting junked?
you need to meet the boomers that day drink so go to bars during the day
Old cars are going for astronomical prices so no idea where you get that their cars are "irrelevant" now. Fricking Supras and FD's going for 100k+.
He means old cars as in pre-80s, classic stuff. Supras and FDs were made into the 2000s, not comparable
Anon FD's and MK4 Supras are almost 30 year old cars now
Yeah saying 90s cars aren't classics is boomer copeposting at this point.
Mentally it's pretty hard for me to accept 90's stuff as "classic" even though I'm not a boomer. I guess it just feels too stylistically similar to a lot of what we have today (outside of the weird super bubbly streamlined stuff) for me to really consider it as a distinct point in time. Or maybe growing up with that stuff just makes it feel way more normal than stuff from the 70's and before.
they're way overcharging for classic muscle cars. no car can be worth more than it was new. a Duesenberg was a rich man's toy in the 1930s and a rich man's toy it remains. but a 68 Barracuda was never a rich man's toy it was a toy for blue collar kids.
Ironically the rich man's cars are now the working man's toys. 60's-70's PLCs are steals right now with all the things that make muscle cars great and all the comforts that make driving enjoyable.
A 1980 Omni cost around $5,600 new which is $21k in today's dollars. Bet I couldn't get $21k for one though.
That's close to if not slightly more than what you pay for a new Kia Rio which despite being a LOL Kia is an infinitely better car in every way than that 43 year old tin can.
2023 Rio costs between $17k and $20k, it's cheaper than the Omni inflation adjusted.
the L-bodies got a lot better after the 2.2L engine arrived in 82 in place of of the tiny VW 1.7L
>no car can be worth more than it was new
totally illogical statement, the market decides the value
A 68 Coronet's original price range when new went from $2,300-$3,300 which inflation-adjusted would be not more than $28k yet check out this bullshit.
https://www.classic.com/m/dodge/coronet/year-1968/
Buick/Oldsmobile/Mercury muscle cars are especially cheap even though there were less of them to begin with.
the best way to troll a boomer is to go to a classic car show with a Slant Six Coronet coupe
The inflated interest SHOULD die the frick off so new gens can afford the gear. Piss on those crybabies (RL boomer mechanic here).
Older motorcycles for example have mostly peaked since they're really for owners who are mechanics. Before them early 1900s cars peaked. Now those second through fourth owners are dead and they're reasonable again.
You can always tell who the passionate old guys are versus the guys who buy cars as an asset. Who cares about their car that wouldn't want their car to go to a loving home as opposed to rotting in a barn or the yard until it's magical sticker price buyer comes along?
lol my dad had a Charger once...but it was the L-body Charger and its all of 84 hp. boomers also hate those cars.
True and well I guess the Shelby Charger was alright if you like turbo 4 pots.
Can't feel bad because of the prices of said cars. It's hard to have appreciation for something that's as much as a new performance car without any performance or safety
A lot of them really lament the fact that no young people are interested... how could they be, when the cars cost $10k for a shell with no front clip??
I'd happily caretake a Nomad for road trip purposes if it didn't cost the same as an entire house.
>asking $80k for a 55 year old shitcan that would lose a stoplight race to a tuned 400 hp Civic
BTW the sole reason to own that old shit is styling. Everything else is better today.
This. If (ironically boomers) didn't regulate 60's style out of production, there would be no reason at all to ever buy a classic when Dodge could just drop a 50th anniversary Plymouth Roadrunner continuation.
Now in the US, you can manufacture replicas of ANY car over 25 years old as a private company, but you can only sell about 300 a year, which means you can't really kick up the economies of scale needed to meet market demand and keep prices low for say, a '69 mustang continuation replica.
>which means you can't really kick up the economies of scale needed to meet market demand
i wish a homie could and also export them to yurop
what is all this Reddit pasta and what is it doing on DA?
probably israelite shillbots from some US army server farm. same as every other board on here.
That's not pasta you noob. I'm likely the eldest here and the truth is modern drivetrains are vastly better. I wrench both comfortably, there being no excuse not to.
That's why restomods are so popular. Old drivetrains (and brakes, barf...) from an era of dirt roads and slow traffic make drivetrain swaps rightly popular. Expect more BEV conversions in future. It's all about the pretty.
Yeah,it was the boomers. All those top leadership and managerial positions in regulatory agencies, insurance companies,government and industry were held by at the oldest 28 year olds in 1973, that were increasing insurance rates,regulating safety standards, forcing lower compression and downsizing, all the rest of it, was done by people born 1945 on. Everyone older than 30 just retired and let twenty year olds run government and everything else like Logan's run
He means meme boomers not literal boomers.
I don't think you get how most political power boomers had.
From 1988 to 2017, boomers ran the show demographically. Through the 80's and 90's, they weren't just "a big" voting bloc. They were the simple majority voting bloc. Boomers were such a big voting group that their generation along could singlehandedly restructure the entire US democratically on its own. If all the boomers voted for a thing, it didn't matter if every other voter in the country, young and old, opposed it: They had the sway to push it through.
Yes, the boomers couldn't snatch the first rolling of the legislative snowball, but they had a 30 year long streak of being the uncontested masters of US politics and shit somehow only got worse while they were.
>voting
>democratically
The modern Chally is a superior replacement to those old shitboxes. I grew up with them and am a boomer which is why I don't view them with rose-tinted spectacles. I crushed many working salvage. They were a teenage icon because a 100K mile car was done so they were cheap and being easy to work on meant they were cheap and expendable.
For example I collect vintage motorcycles to ride and enjoy but that market already aged out so they're nearly all easily accessible. They're not very good as daily bikes but the only bikes that really were premium in the early era were Harley big twins (look inside engine for why, an overhaul gets you a truly zero time motor), BMW and the iron bore Moto Guzzis. The Guzzis are affordable and BMWs quite reasonable, but (real and those without exception are mechanics) bikers ride 'em and don't hide 'em.
Poser RUB filth are the problem and didn't exist before reliable bikes killed the mutually supporting culture.
I've seen this spammer before. It's something that claims to be a boomer who worked in a junkyard in the 70s or some bullshit.
I like old cars, but I already have old motorcycles I like more.
I can score a weird old bike for 500+usd, spend a day or so wrenching, and have a bike to ride that gives a new experience, takes up 1/6th or less a bay, and gets 30+mpg.
I already have too many projects.
There are so many bigger issues for people then (I should buy a cool vintage car) that it's not even funny.
If this is true, then why are prices for used cars "nobody cares about" so stupid expensive???
because the people holding onto them refuse to sell for less than 6 gorillion dollars. or, in colloqial terms, "AYE KNOW WHUT I GOTS"
Boomers don't need to the money, they just want to get rid of the car so they don't have to research market value, just put it up for sale to tell the wife he's getting rid of it
Delusional sellers that pick a price out of thin air (usually from watching cable shows like Overhaulin') then refuse to even consider a penny less because the fellas on TV got $170,000 for their '71 Mustang Mach 1 so his '71 slant six is clearly worth at least $100k
old cars suck and are ugly. no one cares about cars from before 2000
Its just like strikers killing 1911s and boomers finally making a double stack. At the end of the day you are still usually shooting aarp. Modern people want cars you can daily without a shit ton of issues.
>Boomers frick the economy and allow for upchecked capitalism to run rampant
>fun cars explode in price and become unobtanium.
>Boomers decides that his fun car that he bought for 8k but now has high milage and beat to shit is now wants 80k even though that car is really only worth 1k
>No one wants to buy boomer piece of shit for 80k
>Hurrr no one wants to buy my premium sports car with half the power of a modern day sedan.
>Hurrr i guess people just aren't into cars anymore
Carlin was rights, Boomers are the worst generation of humans to have ever existed. They need to die off.
Carlin was the late 20th century's progenitors of homosexual redditors.
>Old drivetrains (and brakes, barf...) from an era of dirt roads and slow traffic make drivetrain swaps rightly popular.
loldude that ancient boomer iron Hemi/383/440 shit would do 0-60 in like 15 seconds. it only seems fast because commuter cars at the time did 0-60 in 19 seconds.
A lot of them couldn't do 60 at all.
my boomer dad bought a restored 1974 BJ40 for $45,000 from a dealership because it he owned one 40 years ago and wanted to relive the good old days
I should have been happy for him but all I could feel was disgust and embarrassment at that price
Just so you know the original sticker price of that thing in 1974 was $4,439. That would be $27k in today's money.
tl;dr he overpaid by a lot.
no shit, thing drives like a fricking tractor too
cool vehicle but for $45k I could buy 2 FJ cruisers with all the capability of that old relic plus modern comforts and still have money to blow
>too pussy to handle solid axles with leaf springs
And that's why boomers had far more T than this generation.
That was actually the lead poisoning inhibiting their endocrine receptors.
That's what they got when "they", like 14 years ago from then on Banned post-EPA cars One event was so desperate they allowed smog exempt cars, but that was still one big political statement from the MOPAR crowd.
Do you know why people don't care about classic cars? It's because boomers like them destroyed any sort of inclusion or future participation of the next generation of emerging classics.
It's the same as Pokemon cards...
The only people who see value in them is millenials and the fad will die with them.
Just like baseball cards...
Or any hobby for that matter.
Model trains, Slot cars, RC cars etc etc