I would be curious as to The Hive's opinion....

of this.  

If you haven't seen Casey before, he's referring to Genius Garage (surrounding him).  

I just watched through from the link. I am part of the generation Casey lambasts. I think he is correct too. There are a few museums that try to fulfill the educational aspect, but damn few, and I have been to many of them. He comes off a little obnoxious, but everyone should listen through his presentation. Also I think the problem he identifies is not exclusive to car museums, there are many other historical museums that fail to engage the audience. Lots of young people are interested in the history presented and the preservation of it, but they need the involvement Casey expounds.

I mean in general i agree with his main point, but my overarching impression is of someone crying that money is not a meritocracy. He can be as right as he thinks he is (which is very, apparently), but that doesn't mean he controls richer people's money even through his incredible powers of persuasion and how "good he is in front of a crowd".  I mean, he'll accumulate that power eventually. But working for power/money implies time, and by the time he gets there he'll be in the age group he's bemoaning. Want it faster? Try being born with it next time.

I think with his level of self-assuredness and apparent career trajectory, things like this will stop bothering him in about 20 years when he becomes exactly the person he's currently complaining about who is very sure that they're right and has enough CLOUT BRUH to become the institutional inertia he's currently railing against. 

Not that I even dislike him. I just pick up a fair bit of irony here.

But enough shooting the messenger. I agree with his main point. 

I hated the first few minutes, and then it started to ring true.

Time was, if I saw some guys with shiny 442s or Camaros meeting up in a lot, I thought it was the coolest thing ever and I stopped.

Not anymore- of course most of those guys are full of crap. And no one cares about my own timeslips or my own cool car except me.

Motorsports are dying- but is that a problem? I'm 43, with young children and all my hair... but I know I'm dying.

I can't twist anyone's arm into caring about LSDs or walnut-blasting... or Saturn V rockets or even children, for that matter.

I can only fade away, grateful that I got to walk around, briefly, in a world that did still care about such things. 

Whatever the point is, I couldn't get very far  into his presentation before I had to quit.

It may be valid, but he's so full of himself that he undercuts his own argument.

In reply to TurnerX19 :

Well said, I agree with your comments 100%.  HE does come off as a pompous ass, but his basic message is correct.  Maybe the places he talked to that didn't decide to work with him was because of his attitude.  

Friend of mine works for a museum in Oklahoma. He is one of two people that work there full time, the rest are volunteers. I have seen the way he works to bring it all to life in their small space and they have a significant web presence with him constantly posting stuff on FB, Twitter, and the like to draw interest. It must be working, their little museum draws more people and makes more money than the larger ones in the state.

I watched the whole thing, and I think he's right. I also think that the attitude and presentation were exactly what the owners of the car museums need to hear. Most will ignore him as a pompous upstart, but if one or two get to the meat of what he's saying, maybe they'll still be around in 25 years.

 

I'm assuming you guys haven't seen Casey in other YT videos.  His demeanor in this one is not the way he normally comes across, at least to me.  I don't know if that attitude is put on for the purpose of this specific video but he typically has struck me as pretty reasonable and sharing the same interests and philosophy that I do.  He did one video about how much he dislikes the BJ/Mecum auctions because of their effect on the used car market (and the sellers of "highly desirable" cars) and how those cars are meant to be driven and enjoyed.   I suspect he had a run-in with some pretentious museum owner.  But I think his overall point that we (Boomers?)  value those cars because they were important to our life experience and that "kids" today don't share that same experience--that they need to engage the technology to have an appreciation for it, is very valid.  

I would ask that you give him a chance and not judge him completely based on his attitude in this specific video.  I think he's singing a song that most of The Hive would agree upon and appreciate. 

Give this one a try

My opinion is that most car museums will close. There just isn't much use for them in todays world other than as a place for people to store old cars. A lot of young people now don't even care if they get a drivers license so why would they care about going to look at some old cars?

It'd be like us going to a horse drawn museum to look at Roman chariots, Conestoga wagons, stagecoaches, and horse drawn buggies. Might do it once if the stars were aligned and nothing better to do. Most members here probably never rode a horse or in a horse drawn vehicle. How long before the generation that says to their kids, "Those are automobiles, the things they used for personal transportation often referred to as "cars" and people had to pilot them themselves.  I don't know why they had two different names for them. "

I do see there being a couple of very large museums surviving around the country for the next 50 years or so, but after that ?????

Seems like Casey's selling Casey. While he thinks he's young, he's not, and if a museum did bring him on board to initiate whatever plan he's pushing he'd be in his 40's by the time things started to happen. A middle aged man to young folk, meanwhile personal transportation will continue to evolve.

His bit on old men in lawn chairs and Facebook impression was funny and spot on.

I watched some of his other vids. They seemed like they were aimed at giving people that might not live and breathe some good information.  None of it was ground breaking, but if he collects a following, he's in a position to do some good. His presentation was enthusiastic and informative without seeming condescending. 

https://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-wrong-with-young-people-today.html?m=1

All generations are stupid and everyone is wrong....  blah blah blah.  This same nonsense has been a part of life since the invention of speech and writing.

Some of Casey’s vinwiki videos are entertaining.  This nonsense is always pointless.  

Hey Casey at least my generation can have an outdoor concert festival with music, food and water to drink.  

He does make some broad generalizations about "young people" (just TOO busy to take time to do things), but I fully support his characterization of car shows (which I don't really like either) and that pulling many of those cars out of the buildings is a good way to save them.

I think some of his thoughts are one reasons why the Cars & Coffee style of shows have taken off. They are sort of the "gig economy" of car shows.

I find the thought (reality?) that many of these "museums" are simply tax dodges pretty irritating in an intent vs practice kind of way.

For context, I'm 28. I relate to almost nothing he said. Maybe I'm not supposed to. What's his beef with "old people?" Has he not heard of Jay Leno and all he's doing to bring his passion and knowledge of automotive history to the younger generation? What about the guys running old school cars in Drag Week? Sure we don't have many 100 year old "original" cars on the street anymore but why should we? Stuff wears out, cars are no exception. John Bothwell knows this. That's why he's building replica Bugatti's. What about Johnathan Ward of Icon? He's bringing old school cars back with new engineering that makes them pleasant to drive on today's roads. I had an "old" guy pull up next to me in an NC Miata and say "nice car" to me in my beat up 99 NB. This Casey seems to be hanging out with the wrong crowd if he thinks old people are the problem.

Maybe he's just trying to pitch Genius Garage to owners of "boomer car museums".