Not enough younger people in this hobby...

Yup. I've heard all this before. Same thing in amateur radio.

You also have to remember, on top of other arguments, that kids today have an INCREDIBLE array of distractions that "we" (or at least "I") didn't have when we were young. Hell, we only really got ONE TV channel at my boyhood home!!!!! There was no cable TV, no internet, no skateboards, electronic games, cell/ I-things, on and on and on.

So if you were "interested" you started on a car. And you bought what you could afford. My first was a 57 Chev 4 dr. I sure AS HELL was not interested in flathead Fords!!! As a kid, I sure as heck was not interested in collectibility, or anything approaching that.

I think a lot of kids today are the same way. They may or may not think an old muscle car is "cool" (er rad er whatever) but they sure as hell aren't gonna get one for a DD most of the time.

Rani may be a 1 in a million exception!!!!