People who love money own and drive classic cars

'68cuda416 said
It wasn't meant to mean selling of the cars it was meant to provide an example of the simple fact that modern day cars depreciate every year whereas classics or old cars will or should hold thier relative value. Also one would hope that most could do the necessary work needed on a 60's or earlyish 70's car without too much trouble....even if they had to buy a manual or ask a friend to help that aspect of it should not be outside of most peoples reach.

I just buy cars that are already past most or all of their depreciation. The Buick in my signature was around $40k new in 2000, now they go for 1/10 that. I do want something newer though, I would have gotten a 2015-17 Acura TLX but the used car market was too screwed up by the time I started looking last May. A Japanese car like that is super reliable, easy and cheap to repair and maintain and runs to 200k+ miles with normal good care. And they're pretty dang fast and fun to drive, and luxurious.

Back 12 years ago I routinely used my Duster for regular driving around but it's worth too much now with all the work I've done to it over the years, and just how much Dusters have gone up in value overall. Not to mention traffic has gotten insane with everyone moving to CO over the past 5 years or so. At some point I might get another cheap undesirable Mopar to drive, depends on life circumstances there are benefits to both (driving classics vs. newer cars).