95' when life was good!!!

But... back then a $ was a $ and now days it takes how many $$$s to make 1 $ !?????

IN the 70's, gas got high ( for back then), then was a shortage (I guess up North!)'
Then the 80s roll around, and the OLD "so called Muscle cars" of the 60s started to be noticed. CHEAP till someone says... these old hot rods might be worth a $ one day and then it begins! I could not swing a dead cat in rural Mo. without finding a V code E body project for sale..... cheap! All there, little rust, straight...cheap...90% of the purple! (I hate purple Mopars to this day!)
Then Wall Street took the big dive in what '88? The money guys pull out of Wall St. and have $$ to "invest" but where? somewhere. Where? Hemi Cudas, 70 LS " Chevelles, Boss 9 Stangs. Thats where. Such brings up the value of a 383 69 Roadrunner, a 68 440 Charger etc, etc. But still cheap.
It all rolls along till 91 into 92. Then the bottom falls out of the collector car market and the $ guys need to dump. Where? sell to an unknowing $$ guy!!! MA and all the mags keep telling everyone these cars are hot till the guys finds out ....Not anymore.
Then the $ guys are out and the hobbiest has hauled home every BB roller he can fund. But wait,,he wants to buy something else, better and he can not sell what he has! No one is buying and the little guy has no extra $. It takes more than a few years before the old Mopar market starts to rise about 10% a year.

Then the market rises and falls over time and a few decades, then good projects get harder to find and now they ask silly money for a roller than is not even a decent parts car. And on FM marketplace seems they all think a 50 year old 4 door than has not run "since parked" 30 years ago, is worth $10,000!
Maybe $10,000 today is the equivalent of $300 in 1985?????? Dunno!!!!!! (probably not!!!) :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead: :thumbsup: