>Date: Sat, 26 Jul 97 17:22:08 UT
>From: "William West" <Will_Thane@msn.com>
>To: british-cars@autox.team.net, "Rick Feibusch" <rfeibusch@loop.com>
>Subject: Mr. Gibbons and the future
>
>Greetings All!
>
>I, too, am saddened by the passing of Mr. Gibbons. And not being a man of
>sundry eloquent words, all I can say is that he will be sincerely missed.
>
>Rick Feibusch writes:
>>This is an aging hobby (Hell, little Ricky will be FIFTY next year) and
>>death will be as big a part of our social scene as birth was in the early
>>Seventies
>
>Interesting thought. I have indeed noticed that I am typically younger than
>the majority of folks that show for the Brit meets (I'm 33) and wonder where
>our hobby will be thirty years from now as I grow closer to retirement. It
>seems that many of the people of my generation have lost the appreciation for
>such things or simply look at them as quaint, backward reminders of a distant
>time that cannot be recaptured and move through life suckered by the slick
>advertising and cultural ideas of a throw-away society that percieves of the
>past as outmoded, negatively primitive and worth preserving only as some sort
>of museum piece curiosity like Victorian aniquarians looked with quiet
>embarassment at their own own culture's folk practices.
>
>Will
>"he once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville
>counted his friends in burned out spark plugs
>prays that he always will.
>But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
>and all his friends are doing time; married with three kids
>out by the Ring road, sold their souls straight down the line..."
> Ian Anderson, Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die.
>
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