08-02-2018, 01:53 AM
Those of us brought up in the 40s,50s,60s played with Meccano, and made Airfix kits, we also helped our Dads service and maintain his car and were used to using our hands and fixing things, most of today's generation don't get the chance to do this, the modern eurobox their dads have been driving needs a computer to tell you whats wrong and even then cant always cure the problem, not to mention the array of specialist tools needed torques, stardrives inner and outer and so on, it is no wonder the youngsters don't want to work on them, even I don't want to work on them if I can help it. The current problem is if a youngster wants a real car that they can work on the whole they tend not to have inherited the skills from their Dads and the initial cost of the car and the price of the insurance for under 25s is the governing factor, with current price trends they just buy a cheep eurobox and drive that till it dies of some silly electrical fault and is carted of for scrap, just check out marketplace on Facebook and see what you can get locally for a couple of hundred quid, compared with the price of a classic that needs restoring the day of the cheep classic has sadly passed, like all things the prices will peak then flatten and maybe drop a bit, but unless they are regulated of the road there will always be some demand for older cars and most of these will have to be ready to drive away and polish jobs.