Thinking of giving it up (a bit of a rant)

Rainy Day Auto said
you "older" guys cant live in the past.

This is the age of Google and if you cant find it on Google ebay, fabo or amazon ....there is a good chance it doesn't exist.

Not entirely true. There are overgrown junkyards out there that have great stuff in them. Cruise country roads and ask. They are there.