Originally Posted by maxcichon

The one difference between 180, alaxfire, me and the other old guys and the new, younger crowd getting into these high-tech/performance cars is:

we grew up changing oil, tuning up (cap/rotor/condenser/POINTS), brakes, replacing the odd ball joint/tie rod end, etc. on whatever we had. Our dads were usually involved.

My first foray into supervised auto repair was replacing the clutch on my folks '67 Mustang after I burned it up.

Ain't the same, guys. Ain't the same.

Sadly.