Re: [AMC-list] Kids and Ramblers

[russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx>]

All true, however......
The problem with kids is they have a very short attention span. We all did as kids but it seems to get worse now that kids have instant gratifiction with all this computer garbage. How that relates to the AMC world is there are no "kits" to drop in that 750 Ci, 30,000HP crate motor that is in every car featured in every magazine. When you tell the average kid that he will have to do some metal fabbing, welding, measuring, figuring, etc, well his eyes start to glaze, he scratches his head and plugs in his Iphone.
I may be painting todays kid with a broad brush but I talk to kids and they all want to buy the stuuf and bolt it in. You can't do that with our Ramblers. You need to stay in the family in order to "bolt things together" and there is not enough AMC flash featured in the magazines. And kids love flash. CC tossed us a bone, thanks for that, but they are back to featuring Camaros and Cudas.
I don't see kids learning to weld and fab. Back in "the day" we had to scramble over each other to get into the shops in school. We leaned over a fender watching our neighbor tune his car or pull the head to do a valve job.
No. I see our Ramlers in the near future being tossed in the heap, if they aren't already, and forgotten as legislation against home car repairs and modification  marches on, crusher laws expand and gated communities continue their oppression.
This may sound just like a grouchy old man telling kids what it was like back in my time, but I have been seeing this for a few years and it just gets worse.
That said, anyone have a 327 4 barrel manifold.......Russ . 


      
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