The car your dad learned stick on is long gone. The lesson rode along to you. Some things outlive the vehicle.

Skills travel between people even when everything around them disappears. The object a lesson happened in gets scrapped, while the knowledge keeps moving forward through whoever got taught. That is the usual way things last, not through the stuff but through the teaching.

Ask somebody at home to teach you one thing they can do with their hands. Learning it badly is still what keeps it in existence, and they will enjoy the teaching more than you expect.