Re: Original paint black LS6
That Astro Blue LS6 is awesome... Looks so unsuspecting. Amazing. To me the exhaust manifolds, missing smog, and a host of other smaller items are trivial. You can get all of those items in the course of a week...
For what its worth, I'm 28 years old and own an original '69 Z28 and '70 LT1 Corvette Convertible with my younger brother (who is also a member). We're about as rare as that Astro Blue LS6. My brother and I are always actively looking for parts and cars. I grew up on the show fields of NCRS and Bloomington meets and have met countless members at shows like MCACN, BJ, and Russo Steele, etc. I'll own vintage muscle cars and classics for the rest of my life.
Being said, I have lots of friends who are into cars (mainly Euro exotics) but not one who is remotely interested in the vintage mods, original numbers matching, dated components, etc. My friends like driving in my cars but we've all heard the gig - they're loud, smell bad, can't charge your phone in them, don't have a sunroof, etc, etc.
The future of the hobby will be uncertain for the Gen Y crowd. I will admit, the generation just slightly older than I am... The Gen X crowd with discretionary income, however, in my opinion, will continue to spend big $ on cars because they're art work. This is the generation spending six figures on restorations with multiple cars. The population of members who fit that bill far trump the participation from my fellow gen y folk.
Dan
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