Valuation and Marketplace article from RS

[1979-930]

Originally Posted by exploserous

After the hype wears off, I can't help but feel like in the long term, there will be a few, really special air-cooled cars worth a lot of money, and then the rest of us driving around the same old cup-holder-less, smelly, dump-truck-handling, pieces of junk that makes everyone else wonder why we haven't upgraded to something with satnav yet.

Hmmm, Interesting choice of words there.

[Matt Monson]

Originally Posted by 1979-930

Hmmm, Interesting choice of words there.

Sugarnuts West?

[NYNick]

Originally Posted by Matt Monson

Sugarnuts West?

Speaking of which, he's been gone a long time also.
(I did email Rick and got the same answer MM got.)

[ficke]

Originally Posted by 1979-930

I'll add to the slightly off topic.
I can't give an explanation as to why I am drawn toward old cars. I occasionally think about a GT3. Because I see an RSR Clone sell for more. But I look at the GT3 and although it's a cool car it does not draw me into wanting it.
On the other hand the 73 RSR clone that is over priced does. And a stock narrow body long hood with the bright work and an Albert Blue or Irish Green color. I instantly put myself in the seat of that car fantasizing about driving it.

I don't know that the hype will wear off. Think of the model A and T hype. It wore off when the people that wanted them died off. Look and the current 50's/60's babies and what they are spending on their dream cars.
The generation that drooled over the 70's/80's Porsches are in there 40's and 50's. There are another 30 years of them coming into a little money and spending it on that dream car they wanted as a kid.

Going further down this interesting path,
GT3, RSR clone and for that matter any Porsche was a car to aspire to own and drive, it was a car people dreamed about for recreation.
Model A's and T's ( I have owned both) were every day cars used as tools of transportation, the only people who dreamed about owning one was as a tool, a move up from a horse. People who own them now, own them to relive the past and have a tie to it, they were not special in their day and were never a car to aspire to if you already owned a car.
So yes these early Ford prices are taking a nose dive as their generation dies off, but the Packard and Duesenberg's and Pierces of the same time are holding steady and many are going up, the "dream" cars will always have a following of any generation in the future.

[exploserous]

Originally Posted by 1979-930

Hmmm, Interesting choice of words there.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/979438-my-vintage-911-handles-like-dump-truck-compared-my-modern-daily-driver.html

[Matt Monson]

Originally Posted by exploserous

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/979438-my-vintage-911-handles-like-dump-truck-compared-my-modern-daily-driver.html

Yes, we got it. He's the above referenced Sugarnuts.