Skills & Trades

Evolving transportation technology means the skills essential for repairing, restoring and manufacturing parts for historic vehicles might eventually erode if not nurtured and supported. If there is any question about this, one has only to consider how many steam-locomotive technicians work in major cities today. Once essential members of the North American workforce, today they are all but extinct. So too, then, may dissolve the capacity to rebuild carburetors, troubleshoot breaker-point ignitions and repair tube radios as these likewise become relics of our industrial past.

The Historic Vehicle Association knows that it must help keep the fires of appreciation for this technology burning, which is why it created the Skills & Trades Commission. The purpose of this commission is to preserve, improve and continue the important skills, services and products that the historic vehicle community needs to thrive today and in the future – even when the technologies that define historic vehicles have passed from being mainstream to “obsolete” or niche-market.

For more information about the HVA Skills and Trades Commission, contact skillstrades@historicvehicle.org