To grumpy older car nerds

"McChiken116 - Patrick H." (mcchiken116)
05/29/2014 at 12:04 • Filed to: None

Car culture isn't dying, it's changing, and will change, like everything must. Adapt or die. BMW is committed to the Manual trans, electric cars will be fun, and hybrids are now hypercars, so no, car culture won't die, it will change. Shut up you grumpy old men.

DISCUSSION (23)

CalzoneGolem > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:05

Shut up and get off my lawn!

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:05

Older car nerd here. Watch your mouth, boy.

deekster_caddy > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:06

People were saying the same things in the 80's when emissions regulations were getting tighter and mechanical devices to meet those regs weren't so good yet. They found a way to not only clean up emissions, but increase performance! There was some strong resistance to going fuel injected and computer controlled at the time, though. It will pass.

McChiken116 - Patrick H. > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
05/29/2014 at 12:07

YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD

crowmolly > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:08

Certain parts of the culture are dying, there is no doubt about that.

To your point there are fads that will come and go but the hobby will always be there in one way or another.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > CalzoneGolem
05/29/2014 at 12:09

Gran Torino!!

jkm7680 > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:11

I'm callin' the law.....Whippersnapper.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:11

Doesn't stop you from calling me "Daddy."

McChiken116 - Patrick H. > crowmolly
05/29/2014 at 12:11

I just feel like some are expecting it to fade away entirely. Do you know how to stop that? Loving cars.

McChiken116 - Patrick H. > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
05/29/2014 at 12:12

At least buy me dinner first

EL_ULY > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:14

Kinja'd!!!

That's right!

EL_ULY > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
05/29/2014 at 12:14

...no... not creepy at all lol :]

crowmolly > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:14

Yeah, that won't happen for a ton of reasons.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > deekster_caddy
05/29/2014 at 12:16

At the same time, that stuff has probably contributed to more of a gulf developing between classics aficionados and modern car enthusiasts. I think the former group tends to consider itself more the true mantle-wearers, so the question is more whether the latter group will change to the point there are no common grounds between them and the classics guys - and adoption of cars past the electronics-pocalypse into the classics canon has been arduous and painful. I think Barrett Jackson fever has some worrying that classics scarcity will continue until the classics crowd have no more cheap classics left, and they're the gateway to the community at this point - fewer people of the new generation getting into classics because their father or grandfather had a malingering half-dead semi-classic he drove every day.

spanfucker retire bitch > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:16

Couldn't agree more. Every time there's an architectural change in the automotive industry, the "enthusiasts" (I noticed this in the tech circles as well, those that labels themselves enthusiasts, with the most amount of knowledge seem to be the least able or least willing to adapt - strange) will bitch and moan until they finally realize they were wrong and should just accept that things change. Like going from a carburetor to direct injecting. Or to hydraulic steering; we're seeing the same thing right now with moving to EPAS - which itself will probably die down in a few years.

The only thing that remains constant, is that things change. And there will be people that will bitch about that change, endlessly.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > EL_ULY
05/29/2014 at 12:17

Creepy is but one of the services I provide.

Also, don't you ever just enjoy a good round of smack talk?

offroadkarter > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 12:21

when autonomous cars come out we can cover them up in polka dot covers and shit just like iphones today.

deekster_caddy > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/29/2014 at 12:47

I love and work on any of them. The principles of fueling and timing haven't changed over the years. The real main differences are things like variable valve timing or cylinder cutoff - those have had the biggest impact on engine efficiency. There have been plenty of others, combustion chamber design, etc but the others don't change the aspects of tuning as much.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > deekster_caddy
05/29/2014 at 12:51

All very true, despite the fact that a large percentage of the classics population in the US is probably fairly prone to look at a DOHC with remote ECM I4 and say "Fuck this, I'm out". There doesn't seem to be an easy solution for that.

son_of_nel > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/29/2014 at 13:18

Don't you tell me what to do.... I do what I want!

wiffleballtony > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
05/30/2014 at 00:57

Honestly, if all cars go electric I will probably stop being a car person. That grumble and scream from exhaust and engine noise is half the experience to me.

McChiken116 - Patrick H. > wiffleballtony
05/30/2014 at 08:20

Old cars will still exist

Slave2anMG > McChiken116 - Patrick H.
06/01/2014 at 15:11

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN.