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Originally posted by milt
Careful about the geezers. I'm 61. FSW is 70 (or thereabouts according to a post by hisself) and we have a bunch more here that aren't the least bit interested in the muscle cars, although we grew up with them. However, since nothing ever will be produced in the future like these cars, they will settle in behind the great cars of the 30's and have a constant value, as do the earlier cars, that is tied to the economy as a whole.
As someone said at one time, any car with chrome bolt-up bumpers has become collectable. Not trucks. Yet.
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Just because you're a geezer doesn't mean you necessarily like muscle cars (not by a long shot),
but if you like muscle cars, odds are very, very good you were in your teens during the 60s/70s.
I don't think muscle cars will settle in behind the great cars of the '30s, because the great cars of the '30s were . . . great cars.
Muscle cars as a whole really aren't great cars, just stamped out Detroit iron with biggish displacement engines. But the cars you grew up lusting as a young man are what they are. You aren't necessarily buying or paying for a great car, you are paying to relive a part of your past.
I don't think the next generation, to whom these American muscle cars were NOT a part of their direct past, are going to be paying these crazy 6 figures for mediocre, relatively massed produced models.