Featured Features The Collector Car Market continuing its steady fall...

I'm calling BS.

 

I like a T coupe.

 

I forget, how close to Georgia are you?

 

Yes, progress is good, but not all changes have been progress. All of the progress you list was available in 1995. Today’s cars are heavier and much more complex, for only marginal gains. A typical recent car has dozens of ECUs connected by CAN bus. One faulty sensor can throw six codes or more. Troubleshooting often requires brand-specific tools. Manufacturers are doing all they can to ensure that owners can’t do any of their own maintenance. We are at least 20 years past peak automobile.

 

ALL THESE YEARS BUILDING AND SELLING MY TOYS NEVER--NEVER SEEN IT THIS BAD IN THE LAST YEAR--ARE HOBBY IS A DINOSOUR AND GOING DONE FATS--HARDLY ANYBODY BUILDING--EXPENSIVE AND REPO PARTS ARE JUNK--IT IS GOING DOWN FAST--SELLING MY LAST NEW BUILD AND THEN OUT OF THE HOBBY BEFORE YOU CAN NOT GET S**** YARD PRICES FOR THEM---

 

If you are in any hobby for profit then it’s not a hobby. I do it for the love of old cars. Nothing more.

 

Quote of the week!

 

Here,Here!!!

 

I love it that “collector cars” are dropping in value. I will feel way less guilty about hot rodding the **** outta them.
I’ve had to sell two of my favorite cars as they were minty stock/factory still and worth way more as originals to “collectors” than they would be if I hopped em and chopped em up the way I wanted to. .
Kinda like how some of the guys on here are keeping their cars factory tall. Can’t wait for them to sell (or die…no offense), so I can buy them and hot rod em.
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market always corrects itself, we all know what cars are highly desirable and will always bring good money, Its lower end collectable cars that people think since its old its worth money that theirs no buyers for, look at the 59 impala market right now its CRAZY!

 

Few months ago I was at a show a friend of mine in the muscle car scene told me alot of these guys buying overpriced cars from collector dealers because they get financed, search the web pick one out apply for credit then gets deliverd easy peezy.

 

I was looking at Subaru’s last spring before I bought a different brand. Although stick shifts may be available there wasn’t a single one to be found at the rather well stocked Tucson dealership or any within my online search area.

They don’t sell, so dealers don’t stock them.

 

To me that's a bit shocking.

 

For the past several years I thought the prices of collector cars were escalating too quickly. I have not been in the market to buy but most, in my mind were becoming unrealisticaly out of reach. It was kind of disheartening but this weekend I watched the Me*** auction from Kansas City and was surprised to see what seemed like some great deals on some interesting cars. That also was a little disheartening when I realized what I have in the garage is probably not worth anything near what was put into them. But I got over it pretty quick. I never kept an acurate accounting of what I had into my cars and never banked on profiting from this hobby.

 

Yeah the first time I recall thinking prices were starting to come down was when Kevin Sledges green 40 merc brought like 75k at auction.
I want to say that was every bit of 10 years ago.
I totally anticipated that car to be over 100k at the time as not only was it a beautiful car but also it had just been on the cover of TRJ.

 

Some cars do sell. This is a nice one owned by my old dentist.
$73k buys a lot of beer and pizza!
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1932-ford-highboy-27/

 

I think this is part of the latest fad (not the greatest descriptor) of what I affectionately call “retro-rodding”. It’s like the 50’s in reverse. Seems to be more and more guys getting back into flatheads and ditching horsepower. Costs way more to go slow now.
I’m not completely there yet, but I did get my first flathead a couple summers ago so it might happen to me too.
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My Buying And Selling Is Over And Just Enjoy Driving....Case Closed...

 

...That's a BIG potato Lou!

 

You Should See The Pickups That Haul The ****er And Sour Creme For It !!!...

 

Plus the pumper truck for application!

 

True, I have to work on this type of **** at work everyday. Going to retire soon I hope.

 

YES!!! x 1,000 percent this!

 

Preach it brother…

 

My cars don't owe me a thing. Building them makes me happy, and there is no measurable dollar value for that.

The market can do whatever the market wants.

 

Buy high, sell cheap, pay what they ask, take what I can get is my motto. At least that’s what my wife says I do. (And she’s mostly right.) So whatever the market does doesn’t really affect me all that much.‍

 

Markets, all of them, swing like a pendulum. Hi and lo. Left and right. BUT the pendulum spends TWICE as much time in the "middle".

Ben