"If you've priced the new cars, you've found to your shock and horror that even the most basic econocar transportation package is going to set you back $4000 or more. Dropping down into the last-model used car market, it's almost as bad. And when you get into the lower end of the used car market, under $500 or $600, chances are you're buying a heap of trouble".

Thirty years ago, the old car hobby was different than it is today. Just how different? Take a gander at Michael M. Self's article (excerpt above) from April 1979, in which he argues for plucking less-desireable cars from junkyards in order to refurbish them and put them back on the road. Of course, these less-desireable cars are firmly considered collector cars nowadays.

On the other hand, the more things change, the more things stay the same. His introductory paragraphs sound like a more innocent appeal against the travesty of cash for clunkers that we're facing today.

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