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Originally Posted by speeder
Perception is a funny thing when it comes to cars. Most people don't pay a lot of attention to them and only know what they have seen on window stickers in showrooms. My mom had a really skewed idea of what various cars were worth.
I took a rich lady friend to a Porsche gathering at Santa Monica airport a couple of years ago and she was looking at the cars the way that she looks at something right before she buys it. We practically had to hold her back, it was hilarious. They were collectible cars, rgruppe hotrods, gumdrop colors, etc. Lots of eye candy. 
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Agree with only to add, " ...only know what
they think they have seen on window stickers in showrooms."
One day nearly 20 years ago my wife took her then '60 356 to the office. The big man (chairman of the board of directors) shows up and after walking through the parking lot, loudly proclaims, "We are paying someone here too much." OK, it was a non-profit where she worked, but she was far from the highest paid.
At the time the 356 was worth just over 10K and just about everyone there drove a newish car. But it doesn't end there. Soon after the bookkeeper/comptroller shows up with her sugar daddy's gifted branny new '03 Boxster S. I think they were about 45K at the time.
I think the chairman siht his pants. But what did he have? An 80K Merc. (he wasn't paid to be on the board — all volunteers).