There's a hot trend in the automotive aftermarket to return car owners to the past. Literally. Today, aging baby boomers are spending big money on "recapturing the rapture" of the cars of their youth.

Just turn on your television any evening and you're sure to find some type of automotive program on the cable and satellite channels. Recently the Learning Channel ran a 10-part series called Rides, which focused on tricked-out dream machines and their makers. Tune into the Discovery Channel and you can catch episodes of American Hotrod and Monster Garage. Click the remote over to the Speed Channel and you can view programs such as American Muscle Car, Barrett-Jackson Car Search, which is based on the wildly successful series of classic car auctions, or My Classic Car, which focuses on muscle cars, hot rods, local cruise-ins and museums.

And soon, another cable channel called WheelsTV will offer 24 hours of original automotive programming on hot rodding, muscle cars, sports cars, antiques, classics, club racing, vintage racing and restorations.

Providing restoration work could be right up your alley, especially if you already have the tools, space, technicians and the love of seeing cars of yesterday on the roads today. Whether you're looking for an alternative to the more mainstream OE market or just looking for another area to help fill in the gaps, there are a lot of opportunities in the restoration market, ac...