I hear you.
I used to have my own boring bar to do my overhauls did it all the time. The last six cars I bought I haven't even opened the hood. I replaced absolutely nothing on those cars. Oil changes are now done at 10,000 we used to do it at 1,000 things have changed.
Of course these light weight cars have a lot of road noise so I miss some of my older Cadillacs and Town cars. [:-)
The last couple of Toyotas that have been through here aren’t touched except for the routine service. My new one is the same.
I still like to turn a wrench on the old stuff if for no other reason that I can do other things than support technology. At least the oldies are mine so if I break something, no one else needs to be involved.
Yesterday I ordered a wheel/harmonic balancer puller kit and am going to try my hand at a Willys steering box. I have all the rest of the parts in.
Today I will go where my CJ7 project and the off and on again K5 live and see what I can do. They are in a fairly secure building a hop,skip, and jump away from the local PD. They ride by frequently. I’m glad they do.
The big job for K5 is the cooling system but I have been doing little things to suit me, mostly TLC stuff. I also plan to strip the dead AC system too.