Future collectables

[mike s]

1979 hurst olds are still under priced will be worth a nice amount of $$$ someday

[Salvatore]

I agree with you young Mr. Hassett. I have 4 boys ranging from 18 to 27. They all like my 69 Z/28 but would never really want to buy one. My one son is in the auto parts business and he tells me he will beat me all day with a rice burner. When my kids look back on their youth it won't be the cars there fathers drove. It will be rice, Cavaliers and Neons. That is the way it is. I also predict that you will be able to buy these very expensive muscle cars we have today a lot more reasonable 25 years from now. I may be wrong, but I don't think any of my guys or their friends will spend 500,000 for a hemi cuda or 300,000 for a ZL1. I don't think the Japnese cars have much collectability but I don't think my kids generation much cares about that. They just want to go fast! Sam

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I would like to stash an '87 Buick GNX, and an '89 TTA - both would be nice, but either will do. There is a GNX in this months Hemmings with 500 miles on it for $42k, TTA's can be had for less than half that and will beat the GNX 1-2 out of 3.

[70 copo]

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I agree with you young Mr. Hassett. I have 4 boys ranging from 18 to 27. They all like my 69 Z/28 but would never really want to buy one. My one son is in the auto parts business and he tells me he will beat me all day with a rice burner. When my kids look back on their youth it won't be the cars there fathers drove. It will be rice, Cavaliers and Neons. That is the way it is. I also predict that you will be able to buy these very expensive muscle cars we have today a lot more reasonable 25 years from now. I may be wrong, but I don't think any of my guys or their friends will spend 500,000 for a hemi cuda or 300,000 for a ZL1. I don't think the Japnese cars have much collectability but I don't think my kids generation much cares about that. They just want to go fast! Sam

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Right on the "money"- no pun intended. You are 100% correct. Cars are most likely a generational thing, and no doubt the time of the supercar is right now. Later- we will not care this is our time now. I happen to see both sides. It is a neat to appreciate the current gas price driven small displacement performance movement - and also contrast that with old school Detroit muscle. I like them both, however I cannot get the sound of 7500 RPM from a small block chevy out of my head. Perhaps that is why I like the Supercharged B series Honda because it (like the early Z-28's) will Rev it up.

[camarojoe]

I hope you're right, so the younger guys who think "ricers" suck can snag up all the Yenko Camaros Chevelles and Novas for pennies on the dollar while everyone else is "investing" in Hondas and Mitsubishis...somehow I can't see that happening though, but it definitely would be ok by me...

[Chris396]

Everybody wanted a Model T in the 70's who really wants one now?

[Salvatore]

I rest my case Chris!

[Jeff H]

But the difference today is that they make a million of these import cars so they're all the same. It's the limited production high performance models that will always be the most collectible and I don't see that in any of the new stuff other than the purpose built cars/trucks like the SSR, SVT Cobra, Lightning, ZL1, etc. I just can't see a craze in the future where these kids today will be restoring their Hondas back to stock and putting the original hood, trunk, wheels back on them. If they do, better start buying up Honda parts now for pennies and sell them back for hundreds of dollars in 20 years.