Will the 2008+ Challengers (and other current Pony Cars) ever be classics?

Yep yep yep. I own a 2007 mustang gt, and my 67 cuda im rebuilding. The stang i bought before i knew about the challengers. I love the heritage R/T with the cragar look mags, and r/t stripes. I think the stock performance and fuel economy of the top performance models rivals the old school stuff, plus they can handle and brake well too. I like the old school styling. They will be collectible. I love my gt. I dont ever use the stereo. Windows down, and good sounds from the flowmasters are all i need to hear.

And lets face it, when our beloved old muscle cars were new there were people who said they wouldent be classics. I can remember going to the junkyards looking for charger parts in 1985, and you couldent swing a deat cat without hitting some form of collectible mopar. The amount of A, B, and E body cars in the wrecking yards was insane. But this stuff at the time was just old used cars, or junk. Now its worth money because you cant find it anymore, people now look at the styling as timeless.

The new muscle cars will go thru this as well. They will get run hard, used up, wrecked, parted, junked. There will be an attrition rate, then at about the 20to 25 year mark people will want them again because they are exclusive.

Got a wrecking yard out here i frequent in west texas, back in the mid 60s it was filled w trifive chevys, in the early seventies it was full of early hot muscle like 409s, in the early 80s it had muscle cars. Talked to the owner Fritz Hodges at length. Said back then it was just business, couldent keep em all. Needed to pay the bills etc.

I was born in 1968, got my first car a 1968 charger 383 at 15 years old, did a cosmetic restoration. Im hoping my newborn son now 6 months old will love these cars. Maybe when he's 15 we can look for a used challenger R/T for him and i to redo together like my dad and i did way back in the early 1980s. We can junkyard crawl looking for some used challenger body and interior stuff like i did with my dad fixing the charger up. Lets face it when those hit 15 years old i doubt there will be any repop stuff for them yet. It will take a few more years and renewed interest in them for that industry to get started.

My wife wants that so much for me. She likes the old cars, but wants to see me and my son working on them and enjoying them together. I hope he loves the old cars as much as i do.