Isn't there a glut of 20 mile on the odometer Vipers as people expected them to be worth a mint?

Adrianspeeder

 

Talk to guys who are in their late teens to early twenties today and find out what current cars they'd really love to have if only they could afford one. Those will likely be the cars that are sought after 25-30 years from now -- especially if they are low mileage and in pristine condition.

As far as the computer issues go with the modern vehicles, always keep in mind that necessity is the mother of invention. If there is a market for this kind of support in the future, someone will step in and provide it, just like all the aftermarket vendors who support the muscle car restoration scene today.

Guys who are handy with computers are a dime-a-dozen these days, and if they can hack into supposedly secure government databanks, then writing a computer program to make a mainstream automobile run properly shouldn't be much of a stretch for at least some of them.

I do agree that a lot of the "high-tech" entertainment and data systems might eventually become nothing more than fancy boat anchors at some point in time. Heck, you can even see that today in Mopar factory radios from the 90's -- most of them are broken and essentially unrepairable less than twenty years after they were new!

 

Am I the only one worried that this will involve alot of civics with fart cannon mufflers?

 

That's the problem with buying a car that everyone thinks should be collectible. There are so many of them in storage that they will take forever to go up in value. The cars that will go up a lot in value are the ones we see driving on the road everyday that are special. Those ones have many people driving and liking them. They also are the ones being worn out, wrecked, and going to the junk yard. They might be plentiful now, but in 20 years most will be gone. Also the youngin's (10-15 years old) who are riding in them or drooling over them on the road now will be 20 years older and have the money to pay for the car from their youth. Since the auto makers have gone more to a disposable cookie cutter mentality with their cars, I don't see too many collectible cars that aren't obvious.

 

You may be right, but as they say, "It is what it is!"

Keep in mind that there was also a time not too long ago when "car guys" scoffed at the idea that '55-'57 Chevy's would be collectible. When I was a kid and first started going to car races, "Tri-Fives" were about all they ran at our local 3/8 mile asphalt track -- now people would have heart failure if they knew one was being chopped up to be run as a Saturday Night Warrior!