Trump and Our Cars

[Mason66]

In a city that could work, but out in the country I feel it would be impractical, and if you need to go to work every day, screw that..


I feel like as soon as the "uber serial killer" trend takes off and people start having ubers take them to bank robberies, and they start putting it in the news everytime an uber driver gets raped or robbed, it will be all over..

I had that thought fleetingly as well, however, if you go shopping at Sam's Club, then want to go to Wal-Mart to finish buying what you need, where do you put the heavy items from Sam's Club if you take an Uber?

 

[Mason66]

Which goes to my point about lower gas prices driving the "Hellcat" effect. How much interest does a 60-year old Hemi car with 425 HP when more and more new cars have well over 450 HP? And as more and more kids who grew up in the 80s and 90s come into money, and start buying cars from their era, the aftermarket for their cars is growing by the day. Normally this wouldn't be an issue due to attrition rates with our cars over the decades, but hundreds of thousands of cars from the 60s and 70s that would have normally been scrapped were saved instead to capitalize on all the money in the market from investors.

Interesting times are coming...

I don't think we can compare the era of '60s and '70s cars to the '80s and '90s.

Even as kids, the people that had '80s or '90s cars are not going to think, hey I just loved that Hyundai Excel I had back in 1986, I want another one.

There were so few good cars from the '80s, I think people will still be interested in the '60s and early '70s cars.

It is going to be very hard for people to find an unmolested car, however.

I just hope this fad of putting huge wheels on these cars goes away soon.

 

[Mason66]

Us pre-75 mopar folks should be exempt from paying vehicle taxes, licensing, be allowed to do burn outs and exceed speed limits. hmm...I'm one of those aging boomers maybe I'm losing my mind...

I don't think cops think the same way anymore.

It used to be that when a cop sees you do a burn out, he gave you a ticket for exhibition of speed.

I would think the cop, especially if he is a younger cop, would look at you now and think, "cars used to be able to do that?"

 

[Mason66]

Totally agree! The value of my cars means nothing to me. I have over 50K invested in my bird tribute. Worth it? Probably not. But I never cared when I built it and don't care now. I have and will always have 7 to 9 cars in my stable. Of all makes of American muscle. The only way I value them is in what amount of insurance I put on them. And I keep that well below what I think there worth for cost reasons. I just like my cars because I built or restored them and what there worth is for someone to figure out after I am gone.

While all that is true, life has a way of throwing curve balls and it is possible that you might find yourself in a position where you would need top sell a couple, so knowing the actual market could be handy.

I see the values Hagarty puts on cars and I think how crazy they must be. I don't think their values are based in real life sales, but it is good for insurance purposes.

 

[Nicknet]

What the market will bear.
The old cars are like real estate there not making new 60's 70's Detroit iron all the new cars are plastic and paper thin metal with so much focus on safety you might as well have them drive themselves. The term "classic car" it ended in the 70's everything after there just old cars.

 

[Larrry B.]

When GM went belly up, I though that was the end of American V8 rear wheel drive performance cars (still think they should've kept Pontiac). Now we have Challengers with over 700hp, Mustangs & Comaros with almost that much and more.. So I don't see performance cars going anywhere anytime soon. And american performance will always be the best bang for your buck.

I love my '69 383 RR. It is the car of my dreams and I'd take it any day over most (virtually all) of whats out there, old or new. (68-70 Mopar B-bodies are some of the best looking cars ever) And because it's a 383, I can restomod it without worry so I can drive it, bigger and better than it ever was off the assembly line. For me it's all love and not investment.

I do watch the auctions and sometimes I can't believe what people are paying but it is what it is. Not a whole lot of Mopars crossing the block either, all Chevy with some Mustangs.