My son is the same way; he learned from YouTube videos on pickup trucks, earned his CDL, and learned how to fix diesel engines. He just welded his exhaust pipe on his truck today.
Rich people used to do this. Sam Walton had a Ford pickup truck from the 1960s that he kept getting repaired.
My son wanted a car for fun and saw a $2500 '79 Thunderbird on the side of the road which we picked up a week and a half ago. You can't drive a car like that in Upstate NY in the winter because salt will eat it, but it is fun to drive around and be a bit of a celebrity.
My wife and I have been in the habit of buying new or almost new Asian cars but the way things are going our next car will be a sub-$10,000 used car because (1) they're not making the cars we want to buy and (2) prices are too damn high.
My wife likes new cars, just got a Mazda 2025 with 1.9% interest, 2023 model is only a few hundred bucks cheaper but 8.9% interest. Cheaper to buy the new model and get warranty and service. My wife is a nurse and can afford it.
Seems kind of racist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Redneck
It certainly breaks the stereotype that they all drive pickup trucks.