Appreciation of the craftsmanship of the earlier vehicles that isn’t found often today. It is like preserving art.
- The closest to a genuinely “hand crafted car culture” accessible to all in World history was that of the 1950s before machines and routines took over.
I've toiled at one of the largest car manufacturing plants over here in Europe (by actual size and net value output); the main Volvo plant here in Gothenburg, Sweden. I loved every minute of it and believe me, to me the buyer of that single Volvo, whether be it a guy in Bremen, San Diego or Yokohama mattered to me as I know what it means spending a fortune on something.
But sadly enough, even if I know I performed well at the assembly line, there never was any such thing as workers building homes and apartments for each other involved.
I'd say humanity still is in progress, but having generation after generation never getting to know the meaning of true craftsmanship is a great loss.
If that is the case.