Shit is just getting expensive. Stuff that would cost a few hundred dollars or even a thousand bucks not ten years ago is double or more the cost. Some of it is just inflation but not all of it.
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Down here thanks to the low salt use a lot more survived but that means now they are all worth more and some are very worn out and trashed and the decent ones aren't cheap.
The price of tires blows my mind now.
Ya and my tundra is due for new ones and I can’t wait to see what it costs for my Camaro.
I'm not saying there aren't any "young" people in the hobby, but they are a smaller percentage of them that are interested in vehicles at all. The percentage of young folks with drivers licenses, is down. The number of younger folks in total is down period. So just on a numbers game there's gonna be less automotive related hobby.
Boomers were about 70-80 mil as a generation.
Gen X were 65 mil. Both the Boomers and Gen X had high rates of drivers licenses
Numbers came up a little bit for millennials but their percentage of drivers is lower.
Gen Z is an even smaller generation and numbers now are saying only 1/4 of them even have a drivers license.
Gen A is only like 40 mil...
Boomers were about 70-80 mil as a generation.
Gen X were 65 mil. Both the Boomers and Gen X had high rates of drivers licenses
Numbers came up a little bit for millennials but their percentage of drivers is lower.
Gen Z is an even smaller generation and numbers now are saying only 1/4 of them even have a drivers license.
Gen A is only like 40 mil...
Well if you look at prices adjusted to inflation it's really not bad.
I have been tracking the prices for 25 years and I can tell you they fluctuate mostly with the price of oil.
They didn't even double in the past 15 years, everything else doubled in the past 5 years
Brent, tell use something about the truck.
#backontrack
#backontrack
We're getting it ready to load up and head down to Tucson tomorrow. I strained my back playing with the new rooftop tent so the "to do" list got shortened. Nitrous bottles are at Outlaw Race Engines getting filled.
Duct Tape Drag's is streaming on FRDM+ for those of you that subscribe (speaking of Cleetus).
How is that shop? I see them advertising on market place for LS heads but a little hesitant.
They have their own CNC setup for LS heads and do them in house. I've honestly only ever bought nitrous from them, they're one of the only shops that fills the bottles and only charges for the amount they put in the bottle. Loper's charges for a full bottle even if they only add a couple pounds and they charge more per pound. At $10 a pound, it's worth the drive, especially since the bottles are usually 40-50% full as the flow rate really starts to drop off if you go lower than that. The last couple pounds are all pressurized gas, not liquid.
They've had a car on This -vs- That back when it was drag racing. I don't know a ton about them though.
They've had a car on This -vs- That back when it was drag racing. I don't know a ton about them though.
We're on Tucson now. There's a cool restaurant right up there road called Hot Rod's that had a big window looking into the hot rod shop that's attached.
Fun fact...people from Tucson are called Tucsonans.
Bummer about Power Tour west. Jason and I wanted to go in his Corvette. Hopefully it makes next year.
David
David
My wife is from Tucson. She might hit you if you call her that
LOL I saw it just the other day on FB and then I had to google it. Took me a minute to get my head to figure out how to pronounce it. I kept thinking Tuscans for some reason.My wife is from Tucson. She might hit you if you call her that
Technically it's Tucsonian.
We're through tech, they didn't put a time on my window or mention what I was limited to so...
Through tech with no time on the glass is how I got kicked out of Lancaster. Really though, the first pass the excuse worked, it was the second pass that did me in.
Just did tech for the burnout pit. I'm not competing, but I wanted to do a the test session today just to see how the new setup does. I don't want to hurt the truck so I'm going to keep it short.
The burnout was fun, destroyed one tire in one minute and stopped. The video will be uploaded tomorrow hopefully.
First run was good, 12.1@104. #8 plug melted again, with a 300 shot and #10 plugs.
We switched to #11 plugs and modified the tune, pulled 4 more degrees of timing from 8 and 2 more from 7 along with additional fuel. We're in the lanes for one more pass tonight, crossing my fingers that the plugs look good this time. We're running the nitrous for another second so this should be an 11.5ish run.
First run was good, 12.1@104. #8 plug melted again, with a 300 shot and #10 plugs.
We switched to #11 plugs and modified the tune, pulled 4 more degrees of timing from 8 and 2 more from 7 along with additional fuel. We're in the lanes for one more pass tonight, crossing my fingers that the plugs look good this time. We're running the nitrous for another second so this should be an 11.5ish run.
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