Firebird, there used to be lots of older guys that were very knowledgeable about these old cars, but they are slowly dying off.

There was an old Model A guy that lived across the the street from me when I built my new house. I tried hard to be friends with him, but he literally hated me when he found out that I was a hot rodder. He made no bones about it, either.

A lot of these fellows were like that and as a consequence, the knowledge they had is dying with them. The cars they cherished so much are disappearing too, simply because almost no one knows how to fix them. Many will eventually wind up as the hot rods they so despised or in the crusher.