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Originally Posted by Zeke

Where do you see that muscle cars tanked? I'm not considering the overpaying frenzy of auctions. If that comes back down to earth that's fine, but even older Corvettes of the >C3 era are not depreciating. Maybe not the best example comparing the 70's and 80's to the 60's era of chrome bumper muscle cars.

I'm talking about Goats and 442's and 427's. Any big block manual seems expense to me.

I went to the Hagerty market guides and punched in a few of the greats like a 1967 GTO, 1969 Camaro SS 396, 1970 Mustang Boss 302, etc. Nearly all of them skyrocketed in 2010-ish, plateaued, spiked again during CV, and are now back down at/below their previous highs. The GTO for instance is below its 2010 timeframe valuation. If you have Hagerty insurance their valuation tools are very interesting. So maybe saying “tanked” is too strong of language, but they certainly aren’t going up like some other classes of cars. As Patrick noted the muscle cars are different than a Model A because they can still be used as a real car, so I don’t see them vanishing from the collector car scene. But because this is a generational hobby, we are already seeing the next generation choosing a 1995 NSX instead of a 1969 SS 396 when their bitcoin hits.