mopowers
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If you're into hotrods for the money, you're in it for the wrong reason IMO
future value of classic performance cars,when to bail out, before the crash?
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Mopar-Mitch
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It's not about the money for me I really don't care what there worth, its the nostalgia, I had so much fun with them when I was young and they were cheap. But that's really what have drove the prices up, everybody likes to re live their youth and these cars remind us of the good old days, now there's less of them to go around. Now most of us are older and retiring and have a little money to spend on one and it drives the prices up. Now that the baby boomers are older we're starting to die off and day by day the prices will level off. Just like us we would rather have a model A hot rod than an original one, younger generations will probably rather have restomod muscle cars than original. Now generation x is getting older and Fox body mustangs and IROC camaros are gaining in price. Our beloved Mopars will be leveling off in the next 10 years I believe. I'm thankful to have the privilege to have lived through the muscle car years and although a Mopar fan I love them all, stock, hotrod, restomod and all.
my68barracuda
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Actually I think that our beloved mopar A bodies will eventually run into the same headwinds that Harley Davidson is facing. The next generations don’t know what an A body is. The folks that appreciate A bodies are getting older. I think there will always be a hot rod mentality, but each generation will define it differently. Just like we did.
el5dart
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truth be told i lost money on every car ive ever owned.
jos51700
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It's nothing to do with electric anything. It's the collapse of the generation that grew up with a specific era of vehicles. Ever go to a show? It's not usually some twenty year old kid with a perfectly restored model T....
By collapse of the generation, I mean, the literal collapse. I.e. tits up.
All one need do is look at Harley to see it in action. The people that saw Easy Rider in the theatre are the Harley generation of the sixties and seventies and then the nineties when their kids moved out. Now it's been twenty years since and they're getting too old to hold up a Harley. HD needs to add tomb stones to it's lifestyle lineup.
(Jeff Bleustein called HD's need for the youth market in the eighties and nineties, btw. Nobody truly understood, especially Kieth Wandell.)
Muscle cars are no different. They got expensive when the people that grew up with them got to the point of having disposable income and Nostalgia for the days of easy hardons. That's a market base that's going to be cruising in Cadillac Hearses in large numbers before too long.
By collapse of the generation, I mean, the literal collapse. I.e. tits up.
All one need do is look at Harley to see it in action. The people that saw Easy Rider in the theatre are the Harley generation of the sixties and seventies and then the nineties when their kids moved out. Now it's been twenty years since and they're getting too old to hold up a Harley. HD needs to add tomb stones to it's lifestyle lineup.
(Jeff Bleustein called HD's need for the youth market in the eighties and nineties, btw. Nobody truly understood, especially Kieth Wandell.)
Muscle cars are no different. They got expensive when the people that grew up with them got to the point of having disposable income and Nostalgia for the days of easy hardons. That's a market base that's going to be cruising in Cadillac Hearses in large numbers before too long.
Every time I start redoing a car people ask me.."are you going to sell it ?" NO!! I am not going to sell it ! I am going to drive it ! I didnt spend 2000 hours and 20k restoring a car worth 25k (maybe) just to sell it ! The greatest satisfaction I get is saving a Mopar from the grave. It makes me sad to think of these old cars getting destroyed. Everytime there is a natural disaster I cant help but to think about how many classic muscle cars were destroyed...not just Mopars but all of them.
it reminds me of a simpler time..a nostalgic time.
it reminds me of a simpler time..a nostalgic time.
Swinger340Canuc
72 Swinger 340 Special
I’ll be bailing out when they’re pulling my cold dead body out of my Dart 
, or when I can’t get anymore gas! I didn’t spend three years restoring and 35 years waiting to get around to it to care about what it’s worth, going to enjoy it as long as I can.
, or when I can’t get anymore gas! I didn’t spend three years restoring and 35 years waiting to get around to it to care about what it’s worth, going to enjoy it as long as I can.
thesiren74
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I don't really care how much my car is worth! I got this thing on a trade for my old $800 67 dart! I wish it would crash these cars should never be sold for that kind of money.
I watched trends change for over 5 decades, they always seem to revert back to stock. Hell yes, drive em like you stole them, then put them back to stock in your so called golden years. Only piss is golden, BTW.
DemonDave
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famous bob
mopar misfit
I don't worry about it , at all. I have never made $$ on any car. Just not a concern to me !
n.y.340 dart
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Working on my car keeps my old *** sang and alway from my guns!
Frnknsteen
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I look at it this way,..... As more and more cars become hybrid or electric, there will be less demand for gas and gas prices will come down. Might be in denial, but I don't think gas is going away in what's left of our lives. I'm going to continue to enjoy mine as long as I can, and don't care what they are worth.
Correct. "There is no one alive today that will see the end of oil"
moparmat2000
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Gasoline isnt going away anytime soon. I havent seen electric propeller planes lol. Most of those are opposed piston engine stuff, some with mechanical injection, and turbosuperchargers. Even jets using jet fuel arent going away anytime soon.
Well said Frnknsteen,I also agree with most all of the posts. The old car market will always be a peak and valley roll-a-coaster.What's hot and what's not.Case in point= My brother owned a 1970 LS-6 Chevelle that when new was about $4000.He had the car for 40+ years,never did anything with it but let it sit in the garage.He would say he just like knowing that he has one.Over the years he was offered much,and even "name you price."When he died it still sat in the garage.Yes I put it up for sale to get as much as I could for my sister-in law.About 2 years ago the car sold for $90k and after sitting for the 40+ years needed completely restored.
Just last week LS-6 Chevelles crossed the auction block completely restored for $55-$75K.Perfect example of the peaks and valleys of the old car market.The guy that bought it had hopes of flipping it to make money.He may or may not have to wait a long time to see that come about..Just another story of right place right time ? Or not.
Just last week LS-6 Chevelles crossed the auction block completely restored for $55-$75K.Perfect example of the peaks and valleys of the old car market.The guy that bought it had hopes of flipping it to make money.He may or may not have to wait a long time to see that come about..Just another story of right place right time ? Or not.
rustytoolss
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I agree
You can make money on cars? Huh. Maybe I should try that out. I thought it was just all about the satisfaction of the resurrection!
rustytoolss
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I agree with you guys. and most of you don't care if you loose money when you sell your car. When you go to the car shows...it's mostly old guys with gray hair (which are next inline to die) not kinds in their twenties. And even if the kids in their twenties were buying our old mopars...where are they going to get 10-25 thousand to buy them. So that leaves you with a buying crowd of old men with gray hair. When you/ or your widow has to sell the car. It would be nice to get the most thats possible.
Like selling your house. Not many people a willing to sell in a down market...Are you ?
Like selling your house. Not many people a willing to sell in a down market...Are you ?
adriver
Blazing Apostle
adriver
Blazing Apostle
I hear there's a man that will pay me dollars to sing into his can.
"Well, sir, my name is Jordan Rivers, and these here are the Soggy Bottom Boys out of Cottonelia, Mississippi - Songs of Salvation to Salve the Soul. We hear you pay good money to sing into a can."
I think we will find that electric cars will go the way of the e85 debacle. Shoved down our throats with no possible support from infrastructure, because money grubbing politicians are only interested in lining their own pockets in the short term, than investing in the long term.
Now, the secret here is to not spend countless $1000’s of dollars and being in over your head, thinking you can recoup that money as an investment. If you look at it as an investment, you will be disappointed when it doesn’t realize that goal. My view??...once money is spent on a part or a car, that money is gone, only the part or the car is left. It now costs nothing to just sit there and rust, or only costs as much as you are willing to spend on it, and the cycle continues. I can go out and spend $20 putting gas in one of my cars and have a blast all afternoon for $20. That’s my investment. If I decide to sell one of them, it is to replace it with a car I really want!
Now, the secret here is to not spend countless $1000’s of dollars and being in over your head, thinking you can recoup that money as an investment. If you look at it as an investment, you will be disappointed when it doesn’t realize that goal. My view??...once money is spent on a part or a car, that money is gone, only the part or the car is left. It now costs nothing to just sit there and rust, or only costs as much as you are willing to spend on it, and the cycle continues. I can go out and spend $20 putting gas in one of my cars and have a blast all afternoon for $20. That’s my investment. If I decide to sell one of them, it is to replace it with a car I really want!
Oldest son wants The 47 and youngest the 65. Both cars are well older than they are! The 47 is 20 years older than the oldest son; the 65 is 13 years old than the youngest son.
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