Dying breed

I think I grew up in the perfect era for cars, and especially hot rods.
My first performance Mopar was a 440HP 1969 Roadrunner in near perfect condition, and one of my buddies had a 70 Roadrunner 440-4speed.
Some of the other guys we hung out with had a 66 Falcon Futura with a 7 color metal flake paint job, WAY built 351C and wrinkle wall slicks that barked when he put the thing in gear, and 2 of the guys had Chevelle SS 396- 4 speed cars.
We all hung out downtown at the local drive in and raced each other most every weekend.

I paid 1,200 for the Roadrunner and drove it off the used car lot in 1976.
It had the police 440, Micky Thompson white lettered tires and 5 spoke aluminum wheels, factory root beer metallic with a tan vinyl roof, and of course a scoop.

My very first car was a Chrysler Windsor I picked up for free and swapped the transmission out by myself at 13 years old, and by the time I was 17 I had 7-8 cars and trucks.
The 45 and 46 Ford trucks both had flathead V8's.
I used he 45 to complete the 46 and had a really good running truck.

We have 4 kids and seven Grand kids that all live in the same town we do, and NONE of them give a rats *** about cars except to get where they want to go.
They don't even fix them up, and I or the Wife even have to make them check the oil or they would just drive it till it died.