Some nostalgia of those times when people had the skills and the means to work on the things they own. Nowadays it feels like it doesn’t matter that you paid full price for your car, or even your tractor for that matter, they’re finding ways of keeping their paws on everything. I haven’t traded in my diesel van because of this, though it’s getting heavy with the miles on it…

In any case, not that those times were necessarily better, sounds like people just got by, and thats all too familiar.