Re: Thoughts On Recruiting The Next Generation

Posted by Allen Kahl On 2011/12/29 15:30:36

Guys
I hate to pour water on the fire or salt on the wounds, but I am afraid we ALL better enjoy our Packards while we can because I am afraid that within 50 years they are are going to be chebbied or scrapnard. Most of todays kids as far as I am concerned are hopeless. They have no interest in anything beyond the last half million texts, tweets, twits, twops or whatever they do. Plus you have to consider the one thing that none of us have any control over, evolution. In 50 years time most humans will have thumbs that will be about 11 inches long and be able to bench press 250 pounds, eyes as big as saucers, ears that you could not fit a 14 inch wheel cover around. With physical attibutes like that they would be unable to hold any kind of a wrench or screwdriver of any kind, or fit their head in an engine compartment. Gasoline burning cars will be a museum piece and nobody will know how to operate them. Manual transmissions, how do you work that? An ignition key, what does that do. When we were kids, we had an overiding sense of things mechanical and how they worked and how to modify them in different ways. It's not like that anymore. Today, if it does not beep, ping, bling, pop, pow or blip, they not only don't know about it, they don't want to know about it. If they can't fix it with another computer chip, they will modify it so they can. How can I be so negative you ask? Two days ago Cheetah died, there were some 30 somethings in my wifes office, when my wife and another co-worker were discussing this event, not only did they not know who Cheetah was, one of them asked what's a Tarzan????? Things historical are of no interest to kids today, and in case you have not noticed history is barely taught today in school. I will grant you I doubt that I could drive a model-t, (never got the hang of the shift pedals), but I at least know what they are. I doubt you could find 10 kids that could tell you who made the model-t. As far as Packard, the constant question I get is who made that Ford or Chevy. So let's enjoy what we have while we have it.