 Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284
Learned Hand
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284 |
Awesome! I noticed that it's exactly 4:20 long.
Strangler
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,537
Check Pants
|
|
OP
Check Pants
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,537 |
Quote:
Awesome! I noticed that it's exactly 4:20 long.
Hey, everyone needs some chill time, right? <g>
Al
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,537
Check Pants
|
|
OP
Check Pants
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,537 |
Last week, while stopped for gas in PA, I'm beside a beat-up Civic that has an intercooler peeking out of the front bumper. I start talking to the 20 year old owner who pops the hood and shows me a 365 horsepower, 18 psi turbo'd motor that he build and installed. The car has a first class adjustable suspension and some good tires/wheels. He says he surprises a lot of Vettes, new Hemi's, etc and can out run and out handle them. I believe him and you can see the pride on his face describing what he built. The kids hands are greasy black......There's some hope!
Al
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,164 Likes: 1
Should be Riding
|
|
Should be Riding
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,164 Likes: 1 |
Awesome! 
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284 |
I think that the face of our industry is changing. My friend Chuck races an old Mopar at New England dragway in NH. He was telling me about tuning in the pits next to a kid in his 20's. Chuck had a timing light and the kid had a laptop, Chuck looked over and gave the kid the thumbs-up. There is a universal love afair with things mechanical which is inheirent, (remember when your parents bought you a bicycle and you took it apart before you rode it). It also crosses cultural boundaries. I always make sure I check out the awesome work the Hispanic kids are doing on their low riders and pick their brains on hydraulics.
The kids doing it today are underground and listening to old farts sayin' what's the matter with these kids today just like us and our dads. Maybe nothing's changed after all.
Strangler
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284 |
Quote:
Quote:
Awesome! I noticed that it's exactly 4:20 long.
Hey, everyone needs some chill time, right? <g>
I'm hip dude!
Strangler
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 12,964
Stickman Yogi
|
|
Stickman Yogi
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 12,964 |
Live to love, love to live.
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,937
Loquacious
|
|
Loquacious
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,937 |
If he's got about 200 bikes, I guess I'm about 4% of the next him!  (but if I'm OLDER than him, does that make HIM the next ME, x 25 ?  The one thing we BOTH have in common? we BOTH have NO MONEY!  
And you may see me tonight
With an illegal smile
J. Prine
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,099
Loquacious
|
|
Loquacious
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,099 |
The times they are a changin' I posted about four twenty before, and was deleted. 
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,284 |
Did I say I really like the film. I could hang out with that dude, he get's it.
Strangler
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 537
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 537 |
A great short film. I share some similar thoughts to this guy about future generations having the skills and aptitudes to carry on with the restoration and preservation of the current and classic machinery we own, ride and maintain. 
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 12,964
Stickman Yogi
|
|
Stickman Yogi
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 12,964 |
Quote:
The times they are a changin'
I posted about four twenty before, and was deleted.
WTF?!
Live to love, love to live.
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 18,825
"Lighten up, Francis."
|
|
"Lighten up, Francis."
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 18,825 |
Quote:
The times they are a changin'
I posted about four twenty before, and was deleted.
How long ago was that?
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,537
Check Pants
|
|
OP
Check Pants
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,537 |
Yep, if you enjoyed the video, you'll like the book. I just tried to read "Zen & the Art..." again, but that's a no go for me. Too boring! Quote:
RE: the video...
I know it's been mentioned here before, but the book "Shop class as soulcraft" is a great book in a similar vein.
http://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/1594202230
Al
|
|
|
Re: Vintage Mechanics Lament
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 18,825
"Lighten up, Francis."
|
|
"Lighten up, Francis."
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 18,825 |
I picked up Zen on Audible.com for my next long trip. Read it about 25 years ago.
|
|
|
|
|
