For the most part (with exceptions) people tend to gravitate toward things of their youth, when in a "collectors" hobby. For example people tend to prefer the music that was popular in their teens.
Today's youth (again, with exceptions) tend to lean toward the cars they were introduced to in their late teens and early 20's. It's no secret that cars of the 80's and 90's aren't truly considered to be "collector cars" or "muscle cars". In fact, I've heard them described as "Jelly beans". The all look the same, just in different colors.
Anyway, the proliferation of sports compacts (some call them "ricers") and fwd wirh transverse mounted engines are the vehicles of choice to these young people. The are plentiful, inexpensive, and cheap to operate. After market support for these pieces is extraordinary, and it's what their friends have.
The collector car hobby is largely a baby boomer hobby, that some of the later generations have found appealing. I suppose, as with the older classic cars, of the teens, 20's and 30's etc, collecting, building, and showing 60's and 70's cars will always be a presence in the hobby, but, will eventually take a back seat to those who prefer collect the cars of their youth (of the 80's, 90's and 2000's) even though people like us still have difficulty looking at those cars as anything more than disposable with certain exceptions.
Such is life.
