Van Chocstraw wrote:
Molly Brown wrote:
Up until the sixties and seventies on the weekends I used to see
people in their driveways and garages repairing or doing maintenance
on their cars. I hardly ever see that anymore. It used to be that if
you wanted to have your car repaired you could just go to any repair
shop. Today you have to consider what the repair involves. If it’s
something complicated you need to take it to the dealer and pay the
big bucks or same time next year you’re probably going to have the
same problem. To know why this is just lift up the hood of a car from
that era and then do the same thing to an automobile today.

Yes, today they are full of plastic covers under the hood. Remove those
and it is generally the same vehicle as 50 years ago. Engine, plugs,
wires, radiator, oil filter, generator etc......same stuff. Just
different controls and computerized.
I still can be seen in my garage maintaining my car, truck and lawn
tractors. I kept up with the technology where most did not but some did.

Pick up any hot rod magazine these days and you'll
see that the enthusiasm is still there. Most of
what I've seen is the switch to hopping up the small
front drive cars and turning them into the pocket
rockets that you see buzzing past you at every turn.

TDD