[epbrown]

Someone in Sports Car Market mentioned that the rise in muscle car prices is that the boomers are rich enough to indulge in the cars they admired as kids, and I suspect there's a lot to that.

As for soaring early car prices, I'm blame the weakness of the dollar against the Euro and British pound - we're being cherry-picked because a $20k 911S here is
~#11k over there and to the Euro-Boomers the 911 is their version of muscle cars. Until the currency values equalize, the situation will continue. Just this once, I agree with Bruce Anderson: if you see a decent deal on an early 911 and you've got the money - jump on it! Prices aren't going to go down again, and 20 years from now we'll be like the 356 guys going "Damn, I was offered one of those for $10,000 back in '04, and it looked better than that piece of crap they're asking $20k for..."

Where I differ from most is this: I think the early targas are going to go up more than coupes. Once the vintage racers have their coupes, people will want open top 911s and pay through the nose to get them. Remember, I said it first - targas.

Emanuel