Are Classic Hot Rods Going Away?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- We headed over to Andys Hotrods and Restoration to talk with Adny, who has been working on cars his whole life. He has quite a lot of experience, so it was fascinating to hear what he had to say about the car industry and where car culture has gone.
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I clicked on "Hot Rod podcast" to listen about HOTRODS not electric bull crap
People still ride horses. Why can't we continue to drive ICE classics on gas and later on H²?
I just stumbled upon you guys! VERY enjoyable content. My key takeaway from this video is that I’m not charging enough. 😂 Keep up the good work!
I'm 68 and I see a lot of guys my age with large car collections dying off and their families don't want anything to do with the cars and their children are part of the non driving population so all they want from Grandpa's collection is the money.
The only guys interested interested in this old iron and know anything about these cars are guys my age or older that ride around on those handicap scooters crapping in their diapers dreaming of their last hurrah to buy... build... and drive... Just one last time into the sunset! What I'm seeing now are collections going from one deceased enthusiast to another that' s got one foot in the grave and another on an oil spill next to a service pit which becomes their final demise!
I have nothing against electric powered vehicles but one major issue that remains the Elephant in the room are the batteries. Case in point I was at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh and they were demonstrating EV Aircraft... plenty of power but what they don't share with the Audience is that the weight of an empty battery weighs the same as a full battery... Some people say "So What" but little do people realize how the fuel weight burn off is calculated for range, altitude, and emergency procedures.
I firmly believe that Hybrid Vehicles are the way to go... Heck Diesel Electric locomotives traversed this country for nearly 100 years! This is the time for alternative internal and external combustion engines like the hydrogen fueled Stirling engines.
The Edison Company in Canada retrofits Semi Trucks with these hybrid setups and are developing bolt on kits for pickup trucks with significant advantages over EV's and ICE vehicles.
This would be the direction I'd like to see for hotrodding as well as production.
Last year I went to "The Lonestar Round Up" which is a traditional Hotrod and Custom car show in Austin Texas and a small group of guys snuck in a Model A Roadster EV conversion and called it the Model "E"... great Idea but limited in battery capacity compared to the simplicity of a stock model A on gasoline.
I've taken up to much of your time but I wanted to get this off my chest and open this up for discussion about the future of hotrodding!
Cheers Y;all
Mark @markowingnutz on Instagram
Mark, I’m not sure if you’re wrong, or maybe it’s just that guys my age (44) who are into this stuff feel and act like we’re 68. 😂 Not only do I live and breathe this stuff, but I’ve got a high school class of 41 13-17 year olds I’m teaching it to. And of those 41, I feel that at least a half dozen of them are going to be true “enthusiasts”. The problem for them (and shoot, for me too, honestly), is that we can’t afford anything but the worst rust buckets that your generation would have scoffed at for a project starting point. And then, if we’re lucky enough to even have a place to work on these projects, we’ve got HOA’s and municipalities breathing down our necks about it before we even get started, because the majority of folks your age don’t want to see these old rust buckets sitting on their street, even if they’re being (slowly) restored.
As a side effect of being 44 and acting like I’m 68, most of my buddies are older, and every time one of them dies, I volunteer my time to help their widows sell off their stuff for the most money we can get, and not get taken advantage of by “car flippers”…and shoot, I can’t afford to buy any of it for the prices I know it’s worth.
And after the sale, either directly or after one flip, the majority of this stuff is going overseas where the currencies are gaining strength instead of losing it. As somebody who has been into this stuff for 30 years, and who is hopefully still “young” enough to enjoy it for another 30, my unpopular opinion is that the issue here is greed. BUT, it’s also just the cost of living in America, and when somebody dies, the person left behind needs all the money they can get, because the end of life is expensive.
Anyway, just a counterpoint. I could give a hoot about EV’s and hybrids. There’s plenty of gasoline to be had, if we can elect the people who will let us have it.