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    I'll opine, as I have a decent group of car friends spread out across the country. It has been the combination of working from home, which has increased the hours at the computer....which drives the desire to spend time with family and tinker on cars when we have a free day or two on weekends.

    Most, if not all, of my employees are taking "staycations" and using their time with their kids/wives and then working on their projects to boot. This means going "out" to a car show is your local cars and coffee. Look at the size of these events - which are double even triple 2019 numbers. This, all a by-product of Covid in some form.

    Add to this....swap meets may be dying....and not because of the age brackets or attendance...but because of technology. Forums, auctions, classifieds, etc.. are also doubling and tripling in size (traffic/amount of posts). Go back even 10 years....a few for sale here and there and swap meets were "the place". Now, swap meets (personal experience) either don't have exactly what I needed...or are too expensive, etc.. whatever the reason.

    I don't think it is so much a shift of age/interest as it is a shift of technology infused with the economic changes of covid.

    I think shows will come back and even grow in size because so many have been working on their cars and want to drive/show them - but the commerce to online and the distance people are willing to travel? Most definitely changing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve shea View Post
    I think there is declining attendance here as well.
    Definitely a decline in enthusiasm from "the good old days".
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    Quote Originally Posted by jaudette3 View Post
    Definitely a decline in enthusiasm from "the good old days".
    Careful, we are NOT allowed to talk about that.
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    Ya SATMan. I feel like its fifth grade in Parochial school and the nuns are just waiting to switch my knuckles if I get out of line. Five, four, three ...
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    Attendance at PCA DEs and Tours here in Colorado are absolutely off the charts. That said, focus is almost entirely on modern cars, which most folks cannot work on in a shade-tree DIY context. I'll have my '69 at a local car show tomorrow, where I suspect there will be very few early cars.
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    Going to an all Air Cooled swap and show tomorrow in Concord, CA. Hoping it'll be a decent show. All the rest of the local swaps have shut down it seems. Canepa isn't doing their monthly C&C during the summers anymore (got to big I suspect). I go to Easy every once in a while but it's a drive and a half from Santa Cruz.

    '21 Werks was light IMO but, there were several extenuating circumstances to explain that. RR at Seca has been off the charts each and every time. I haven't made a Luft yet.
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    don't want to discourage you Michael (since you are driving a long way)
    the meet is swap only...
    i will be there looking for a 1968 passenger side heat exchanger
    the meet is Sunday......................
    Last edited by bob joyce; 10-01-2021 at 06:32 PM. Reason: sp

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob joyce View Post
    don't want to discourage you Michael (since you are driving a long way)
    the meet is swap only...
    i will be there looking for a 1968 passenger side heat exchanger
    the meet is Sunday......................
    duhh,,, Yeah I knew it was Sunday, don't know why I wrote 'tomorrow', LOL. I've a couple of 'like to haves' on my list but, one never knows when one'll run across that thing you never knew you needed, hehehe.
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