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

Anything more than four or five years old was an old car to most people when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties. I don’t think I saw my first 32 until I went to my first car show at the local National Guard Armory in 1966 when I was 15, and recall exactly two 40 Fords squirreled away, plus two 37s occasionally seen on the streets.

 

Nothing to do w the price of tea in China but... Our 57 Chevy wagon was put out to pasture in 1963. Where it sat until the 2000's & we bought it. Hard to imagine using a car only 6 or 7 years now & calling it done. Our daily drivers today are 19 & 23 years old.

 

and I just started a ground up build of a Model A Tudor last year. I know it is a money losing proposition but it is my hobby and it brings me joy!

 

If you had to come up with $7000 a year just for insurance you wouldn't be in a hurry either. I know its not the only factor but its a huge expense if you tack that onto the cost of a car (which even used are also ridiculously priced unless you get a total.piece of ****) gas and maintenance.

 

no tears here. we used to sit in the tavern and watch those "don't know what to do with all my money" auctions, and moan about them being the ruination of the old-car hobby!

 

Strange, I was also born in '44, and aside from some definitely OT road course burners from across the pond, I have no desire to own any of the new crop of offerings from the multi-national manufacturers. As Lewis Grizzard said in his book, "I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962".

 

Parts sales are a bit down. I have a ad in the cl***ifieds with doors fenders and hoods for sale with a link to the pictures. $50 each buys most of the stuff. Not one response.