What can we do and what are we doing to cope with the "aging hobby"
phenomenon? At the CT MG show, we have a coloring contest for
youngsters, but that's all for entertainment of little ones. Some people
invite kids to sit in the driver seat to try out cars for future use;
others glare at the kids.
Mike became engaged on Saturday. Congratulations, Mike and Miss X. We
spent most of Saturday prepping for and then having married our younger
daughter. She has no interest in LBCs, owning a H Civic with A/C & A/T,
and married to a lad who has Jetta with same features plus elec windows.
Obviously I failed to get her interested in LBC. They didn't want to use
the TD for transportation because her coif would be blown about.....
Perhaps, if there are issue in this union, there could be future
interest in LBC....
Bob
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:02:31 -0400 Jurgen Hartwig
<gt0003a@prism.gatech.edu> writes:
>At 08:15 AM 7/26/97 -0700, Rick Feibusch wrote:
>>This is an aging hobby (Hell, little Ricky will be FIFTY next year)
>and
>>death will be as big a part of our social scene as birth was in the
>early
>>Seventies when people were selling their MGs and Triumphs to get cars
>that
>>were family sized. There was an original Twilight Zone episode that
>comes
>>to mind when someone goes on to the light. It was about a backwoods
>>hillbilly who drowns while on a coon hunt with his dog and comes home
>to
>>find that nobody can see him and watches his own funeral. Realizing
>that he
>>has died he goes down the road looking for heaven.
>
>
>Yes, it is an aging hobby, but I hope that the other youngsters out
>there
>including myself help to keep MGs and old cars alive. Forget the
>throw-away generation. I'm here to stay whether they like it or not.
>I
>just hope that someday I'll have the knowledge that only comes from
>experience, so that I may share it with other listers.
>
>Long live Lucas. Err. Scratch that. Long live the MG.
>
>After all, if we keep the MGs alive we can remember our friends like
>Ray.
>
>Jay
>
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