[Capt Quahog]

Remember well back in the 1960s when I was active in antique car club activities in New England. Preservationist - owners were always spouting off stuff such as . . . "At least this is one more saved car that the hot rodders won't get".

It still amazes me now a half-century later to see all these so-called "barn find" cars finding their way to the market place. Many of the dust covered dilapidated vehicles seem to be decades old poor quality amateur "restorations". On "You Tube" there are now all sorts of videos showing serious guys ripping apart Model A Ford cars for their deep chop and channel "shabby chic" "rat rod" jobs. Thing is . . . many of the hot rod projects look to be skillfully done reworks of otherwise Bondo patched-up rust bucket cars. Still, I sometimes think, that those now long departed past owner "restorers" must be spinning in their graves.