[LetsFNgo]

He is 100% right in most respects(in my opinion). Most people my generation(millennial) don’t care about old cars. They want cool stuff from the 80’s and 90’s, if they’re interested in cars beyond being appliances. They respect the muscle car stuff, but aren’t willing to spend the money on stuff to get heavily involved. Mainly because in the last 20 years prices on white trash fun muscle car stuff has exploded.

I didn’t get into AMC stuff because I loved it from a young age. I got into AMC because they’re the only manufacturer left of the muscle car era where prices haven’t gone crazy. And even that isn’t entirely true. I had to spend 3,000 dollars on a tunnel ram because so few amc tunnel rams were ever manufactured, and baby boomers have hoarded stuff being unwilling to sell and now think everything they held onto had gained in value.

I have nothing but respect for past generations holding onto this stuff when it was just fun cars that sounded cool. But now everyone sees dollar signs. I think certain stuff will always have value, but overall I look forward to prices dropping and being able to pick up fun stuff for cheap.

Also worth noting, if you want your kids involved in the stuff, keep them around and a part of it. I’m sure it’s not guaranteed, and if my young son ends up not liking the cars, eventually at least one will be his to sell or do what he wants with. But I can’t force him to like it. And at a bare minimum, he has cool photos to see from when he was young.