1949 Chevy 3600 into a daily driver<\/a> \u2013 67-72trucks.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt\u2019s a serious blow to a system that is perhaps getting too old to take it. Yes there are alternatives but going back and updating the past is a daunting task that few are going to take up the torch and do.<\/p>\n
Am I over-reacting, seeing the world through my doom and gloom glasses once more to romanticize\u00a0a dead technology? Maybe, but I also think that without these archives, these globally, available caches of knowledge fewer and fewer are going to venture forth under their hoods and try things themselves.<\/p>\n
Sure, enthusiasts prior to the advent of the internet had to learn the hard way, and managed to do incredible things when left to their own devices, but we live in a different time now. Auto shop isn\u2019t in every school, and sure as hell isn\u2019t mandatory. Cars are becoming more complicated to service at home, and, with the drive towards automated vehicles who knows what might happen to the modern enthusiast.<\/p>\n
The naturally mechanically inclined will continue to make headway on their projects, but the rest of us? Well the rest of us better start saving what we can before forums are gone for good.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve taken them for granted assuming they would be around forever but now more than ever we should cherish the ones that are still alive and active, they are the last of a dying breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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