True car people are becoming a thing of the past

A lot of things contributing. Regulation for environment (not saying that's bad, just saying it's contributing), expense, and the cars we're working on, we mostly thought they were cool when we were kids. For young adults, that'd be 80s and 90s, I guess? And at that time, cars were already devolving to appliances. All that, having a place and tools to work on them, and somebody to teach them. All getting more rare. And, same, junk yards here are newer cars, and I don't know where a machine shop is, though I'm sure there's one within an hour, if I looked.