[Jack Hammer]

I can remember a day, not so long ago, when I could tune my own car - which had a float bowl carburetor and a distributer head and so on. It was fun.

Now it’s all solid-state computer boards and so on. No fun.

Puts me in mind of the difference between the Colt 1911, which I could also strip bare and tune, and all these new-fangled crunch-n-tickers with half a dozen levers and latches.

And now I can’t even figure out how to use the telephone, much less my television or... computer!

Thank goodness I’m a Certified Old Fart and on my way out the door.

[Cowman]

I just saw a vid where the Hot Rod Roadkill guys took a Helcat engine and decided they would drop it into a clapped out 68 Charger they had built on a shoestring with a 440 out of a junk mobile home. In order to do the swap to the Hellcat they had to take absolutely EVERYTHING out of the donor car — Right down to the headlights, taillights and touch screen. Not to mention the estimated 3 miles of wiring.

And the result looked stupid, Could be considered an obscene act and wasn't nearly as much fun as the original.

I say to all the car makers out there “MAKE A VERSION OF THE 1971 DUSTER, Nova, or whatever with modern materials but the old, mechanical systems and without all the nonsense you put in the new stuff — and let us modify them according to our tastes. You'll sell them by the thousands

[knarf]

You hit a key point ... it was fun !

A Saturday tune-up ... with or without friends and beer ... after setting the points and getting that timing light SO steady ...

a boy became a man.

[Covenantor]

I'm with you on that.

My answer to the title question is yes, and here it is.