The state of our hobby .. 67-72 Chevy and GMC

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So I didn't really watch the auction coverage, but I did watch the results that were posted here on the board. I appreciate all you guys that took the time to post.

Honestly it made me rethink whether I wanted to play with these trucks anymore. And that's all I do, just play. Its not too expensive, its fun to dig up parts, and its fun to trade back and forth. I pretty much don't care if I ever get anything perfected and on the road ... I just want to have fun playing with trucks.

I was big in to the tri-fives back in the day, and then they got ridiculous. I was a muscle car guy, and then the got ridiculous. Collectors and auction houses somehow ended up in the fray. Heck during the gas "crisis" you couldn't give stuff away that today brings hundreds of thousands. If you read Hemmings back in the day the ads for the auctions were pretty much all Duisenberg's and foreign sporty cars. An occasional 60/70 era muscle car if it was beyond rare. Today its rare to see the old classic, but you see a ton of muscle cars and stuff that used to be the place we could all play.

Now our simple and fun trucks are being targeted by the collectors and auctions houses to make money.

I was talking to a non board member buddy today about this and told him Im considering putting away enough stuff to build a shorty 71/72 (and liquidate the rest). Id spread open a tarp and roll it on. stack everything I have in the bed and the roll the tarp over it all. Couple rolls of duct tape later it can sit. Maybe my grandkids would want to pull it out someday. My buddy said, don't bother, they wont want it ... Sad, but probably true.

Am I the only one that was disappointed?