Can you become a classic car specialist with YouTube, Google and co?
The classic car scene is known to be full of DIY enthusiasts who maintain and restore their cars in their own garage, but it is also well populated with professionals and specialists who help inexperienced owners with maintenance or rebuilding.
A frequently asked question is whether the ageing specialists will find successors. Will the knowledge that was once acquired in the daily work with what are now classic cars be passed on and preserved?
The internet with YouTube, Google and co. is likely to play an important role here. In fact, a self-taught car enthusiast can already find hundreds and thousands of videos on how to repair or restore certain things on an old car, and there is a forum for almost every interesting car where questions about restoration are discussed.
Is this enough to enable you to rebuild or at least maintain a car yourself? Probably yes, at least if it is a frequently produced and therefore also documented vehicle such as an MG A, for example. You can find an incredible number of videos and recommendations online, the problem is more likely to be finding the right sources of information and not spending too much time looking at all these instructions.
You should actually carry out the experiment once. A novice restorer is given an MG A that can be built up and a laptop and is asked to teach himself how to restore it. It would be really interesting to see if this could work. My guess: If the guy doesn't have two left gears and a basic mechanical understanding, then it could work.
But I'd be interested to hear what our readers think! So, please comment! Thank you very much!
