Boat shopping has become frustrating....
04-20-2017, 02:23 PM
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I work in the auto service industry and the last thing I want to ever do after work is turn a single wrench anywhere on anything. Rather pay to have it done....there is ZERO joy in it for me.
04-20-2017, 02:23 PM
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That's the problem with painting one entire demographic with the same brush....you tend to get it wrong.
I'm 36, and most of my buds are Gen-X or Millennial. I've got a bunch of them coming over to my shop tonight to hang out and have some beers. 1400 whp owner built GTR, two different 650 whp C6 Z06s, 780 rwhp silverado, 940 rwhp K/5 Blazer, freshly finished and un dyno'd single turbo Viper, pro-touring big turbo Buick Grand National and a few more. Oldest owner in that group of cars is 37, youngest is 28.
Like has been mentioned...don't give up on the younger generations.
I'm 36, and most of my buds are Gen-X or Millennial. I've got a bunch of them coming over to my shop tonight to hang out and have some beers. 1400 whp owner built GTR, two different 650 whp C6 Z06s, 780 rwhp silverado, 940 rwhp K/5 Blazer, freshly finished and un dyno'd single turbo Viper, pro-touring big turbo Buick Grand National and a few more. Oldest owner in that group of cars is 37, youngest is 28.
Like has been mentioned...don't give up on the younger generations.
04-20-2017, 02:25 PM
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04-20-2017, 02:36 PM
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Me too bro, but I wouldn't trade this life www.instagram.com/paperchaserelim for happy hour and tv shows after work. I'ma get my mine!!!! Sleep when I die.
I had mine for little over 3 years and said I had enough. Got old, tired, and more of a hassle. My "fishing boat" is headache free, requires little wrench time, and keeps me at happy hour with my friends and little worries. That is my "happy" place.
04-20-2017, 02:38 PM
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We all have different joys in life.
I had mine for little over 3 years and said I had enough. Got old, tired, and more of a hassle. My "fishing boat" is headache free, requires little wrench time, and keeps me at happy hour with my friends and little worries. That is my "happy" place.
I had mine for little over 3 years and said I had enough. Got old, tired, and more of a hassle. My "fishing boat" is headache free, requires little wrench time, and keeps me at happy hour with my friends and little worries. That is my "happy" place.
04-20-2017, 02:41 PM
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The bikinis still flock in. Just need a good stereo and get the boat in the water.
04-20-2017, 02:43 PM
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Interesting thread.
I've heard the argument that lack of new boats in the market has inflated the prices of used boats. That's fair, I suppose. What if we looked at it from the other side of the equation, the demand side. Right now there are a population of performance boat enthusiasts, but that population is aging. I'm 35, and I have only one friend my age who owns a go-fast boat. My other friends don't have the interest in mechanical things to keep a performance boat going.
I foresee a significant drop in demand for these used boats as the enthusiasts age out of the market. I foresee the same thing happening to classic cars. Gen X-ers and Millenials aren't the wrenching types that the Boomers were.
I've heard the argument that lack of new boats in the market has inflated the prices of used boats. That's fair, I suppose. What if we looked at it from the other side of the equation, the demand side. Right now there are a population of performance boat enthusiasts, but that population is aging. I'm 35, and I have only one friend my age who owns a go-fast boat. My other friends don't have the interest in mechanical things to keep a performance boat going.
I foresee a significant drop in demand for these used boats as the enthusiasts age out of the market. I foresee the same thing happening to classic cars. Gen X-ers and Millenials aren't the wrenching types that the Boomers were.
