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From: "Lambdin, Mike" <mlambdin@towson.edu>
To: "Rick Lindsay" <ROLindsay@Emeraldgrc.com>; "Bullwinkle"
<yd3@nvc.net>; "mgs" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: Hobby in decline?
> All this talk about the "younger generation" and what they
> do, or do not, appreciate is certainly debatable.
Please note that my post didn't poopoo the younger members
of our society. In fact, I related them to ourselves when we baby-
boomers were their age.
> ...But when I drive onto campus in my '59 MGA or '52 Jag
> XK-120 heads turn. The "kids" frequently stop in the parking
> lot to look the cars over and ask about them.
Exactly. When i drive my '79 Ferrari 308GTB ANYWHERE it
gets attention -- not from girls as the fable goes but from teenage
boys.
I think you are on to something. You have to know something exists
before you generate a desire for it. Most of the people I know, young
or old, don't have Ferraris because they don't have the imagination
to know that they CAN have one.
> So many younger folks, these days, are a part of the computer
> gadget generation and have never been exposed to a socket
> wrench or a timing light.
So true. This is analogous to the Internet/WWW replacing Amateur
or CB radio. It's just so in-your-face easy. These guys, God love 'em,
are more likely to see one of our classic or exotic cars on their PDAs
than in real life.
BEst,
rick
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