Is Hotrodding dead?

Hotrodding isn't dead, it's just suffering from a society that has very little creativity left. There is no need to be creative when we are flooded with ways to be entertained and pleasured without having to think, sweat, get dirty, or be uncomfortable.

There is no need to learn to fly a plane, play an instrument, draw a picture, race a stock car, or even to fight a battle. Just buy the software and a few gadgets, and you can become an expert without ever leaving the air conditioned, upholstered, subsidized comfort of your dwelling. Who cares if your skill can't be transferred to real hardware.

Ordering parts on your computer is far easier than roaming a wrecking yard with a crazy idea, a tape measure and a notebook. Bolting a small block Chevy into a rolling frame, covered with fiberglas panels that you bought from a catalog is far easier than figuring out how to squeeze that old 700 lb, 354 Hemi into a body built for straight six. It only takes a fat check book to resolve a quandary, not creativity and effort.

There will always be hotrodders, and dreamers, and the curious, and the creators. They will be envied by some and scorned by others, but they will continue to do what they love. There will just be fewer of them.