{"id":492740,"date":"2012-11-01T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=24123"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:24:50","slug":"wheres-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wheres-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s the Kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don\u2019t know if it was coincidence or not, but at least a half dozen times\u2014throughout the course of this August\u2019s Monterey car week\u2014I was asked my opinion of where tomorrow\u2019s collector car enthusiasts are going to come from? In one case, it was a concours organizer, in another it was someone from the management of a major national collector car club. After about the third time, I started to get a little nervous, \u201cWhat do these people know that I don\u2019t?\u201d It was starting to feel like everyone knew that there was some impending automotive apocalypse coming and that we needed to load the spaceships with young collectors to save the future of the hobby.<\/p>\n

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Despite the obvious drama, the underlying question in all of these cases seemed to be what is going to happen to these old cars as their owners\u2026gulp\u2026head to the big concours in the sky? As I mentioned to the person that originally posed this question to me, in reality this isn\u2019t a new issue. As far back as the late \u201960s and early \u201970s, enthusiasts of veteran and pre-war cars were asking each other the very same question. What would become of the Bugattis and the Alfa Romeos when their then-current custodians passed away\u2026in the 1970s! Obviously, younger enthusiasts stepped in and these cars continue to survive, be used and appreciated, some 40 years later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n