Not enough younger people in this hobby...

I don't want to hear about how old cars are expensive. EVERYTHING is expensive, now.[/QUOTE]

I agree with this.
When I started out with the mopars they were cheap old cars. I would fix them up as cheap
as I could and had a lot of fun using them as daily drivers at the same time.
As I got older I do spend more on them than I did then. If I wanted to I could still put together
a cheap Mopar and drive the wheels off it. But now I buy parts that I couldn't afford back then.
This is how they get to be expensive. Hemis, sixpacks, 18 spline 4-speeds and Dana's.
If I would just go back to how I did it when I was young it would still be cheaper than buying a newer used car.
Use a running 440 take out engine, Put it in a cheap dart body. Get a used set of wheels and
some fresh tires.
I have almost talked myself into moparing like this again just while typing this.
Trying to make them perfect, like new or valuble cost. Driving them not so much.
Building mopars as the young without much of a budget sounds good about now.
I'd like to go back myself.