Mecum Auction COPOs everywhere

[Salvatore]

As I get older and older and attend more car shows and cruises I see a decline in the younger crowd. While we have 4 sons, one being a mechanic and in the National Guard, NONE of them are really car guys! Not that they don't like them but not interested in owning big dollar cars. Our boy that just got back from Iraq is still working part time at Buxmont Truck Accessories. Anybody around his age 27 is buying 4WD's or very few buy Mustangs. Actually you can buy almost perfect 1998-2000 corvettes for 25,000 that will dust anyone of those cars and not even hear it running. They are not to interested in our type of cars like I have NO interest in a model A or T. That is why they fell off the earth. All those collectors are gone. I believe the prices for the big number cars will be still high down the road, (Hemis, ZL1's etc.) They are going to be harder to sell. If you didn't grow up with the car it is hard to get REAL interested in paying 65,000 for a fairly nice Z/28. Especially when the COPO's and such are never driven anymore they will loose interest in the younger group. Those kids don't even see these cars if they don't go to the big shows. Heck, Most of the rice burners eat our cars up anyway. I will NOT allow those cars to park in my driveway and my kids know it. Our kids range from 29-21 in age and I can't see any of them paying 100,000 or even 75,000 for a car they can't or don't want to drive. So in closing most of these crazy priced cars will be buried with their baby boomer owners. So get out there and drive em if you have em! You may be the last generation to do so.