[king_midas]

The hobby has sucked for some time. And no, it's not sour grapes about the current prices-- It's because there are a lot of people out there trying to make money; essentially playing on the strongest buyer's criteria-- Emotion.

Example: I was visiting my family in Boston a few years back, and we went to Camaro/Firebird day-- A local outdoor car show event. There was a Rallye Green '69 Z that some clown was trying to sell; it looked great as a 10-footer for sure, but when you got close, there was all sorts of stuff wrong with the car, not including the obvious-to-me repairs to the rear 1/4's and floors that were done very poorly.

Anyway, I got to talking to the guy thinking it may be possible to get the car for a song, and the one thing I distinctly remember is him saying "If I don't get what I want for it here today, it's going on e-Bay." I just thought to myself how absolutely pissed I would be if I were any significant distance from Boston, paid what this guy wanted for the car, and was delivered a hunk of [censored] that I was now stuck with.

It's been said before, but the hobby sucks because it's more investing rather than enthusiast ownership. Who wants to lose money? Uh-- Nobody. So, it makes perfect sense that the hobby has turned into what it is.