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Originally Posted by MRM
I also agree on early 20th Century cars, and probably for the same reason. When I was a kid a Model T was collectible. Now its barely worth the cost of storage. Each year it seems that another generation of older cars falls from being collectible to the "just old" category and a newer generation of cars that were popular when this year's crop of 45-60 year old men were in high school becomes the new collector car class.
I graduated from high school in 1983. It's not a complete coincidence that I have a 1984 911. I grew up dreaming about SCs and Carreras and the Carrera was the newest and most expensive Porsche I could afford when I was able to afford one. I suspect that's the sort of thinking that drives a lot of collecting.
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Amazing how that goes. I also graduated high school around the same time, and my "keeping forever" car is an '82.
It is interesting to follow how long it takes for generations of cars to fall out of favor, and lose value. As you point out, there probably isn't a huge market for Model Ts.
I'd imagine the same thing is true from the cars of the 30s and 40s. ??
So then the cars of the 50s and 60s will be next, or are those "different"? I wonder, for example, if there will be a significant decline in the price of 356s, or early 911s, and when will that be? (It seems like 356 has been softening already).