It's really a natural phenomena. Anyone who really started getting famous in the 70's and early 80's is getting close to the back side of the bathub curve of life. And most of those are more well known simply because they're still being played.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.