fabrication

I believe a lot of what the original poster is talking about is due to technology. Back in the 80’s when I had my first cars it was a lot of money to make car my parents let me use (1972 Dodge Demon 340/3speed stick) to go fast. Now kids go buy a Subaru, reprogram for extra ponies and run the snot out of it even though it is financed. When it blows they turn it in and don’t care about credit score because they still live at home.
Sorry,I don’t mean to pick on a certain generation. All I am saying is technology has made it “easy” for them. There is no more diagnostics… if the eye phone cannot tell them what’s wrong they are a mess. Plug into the ALDL port and go from 14 secs to 12 secs with air conditioning on. Lol! For us it was a whole weekend changing upper valve train for an extra 25 HP. One click of a key and they get 200hp(exaggeration of course) no need to fabricate- other than wild tails of how fast they are. Lol!