Cars and their value

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Just a little perspective/humor, not exactly accurate, but from the fifties on try naming a car that is worth a lot of money now that was not considered a POS in its day or shortly there after. The Cobra does not count; In my neighborhood there was a running/licensed one for sale for a year or so down the road, and in '73 the owner was trying to trade my dad for his 1970 Datsun 240Z. He also wanted to give my dad some money in the trade. At that time in our lives, we considered that car a POS as did everyone else that drove by it for the year or so it sat in the guys yard. Eventually some wacko thought something of it because one day it was gone and a Mercedes Gullwing took its place under the tree in the yard for a year or so.

I have always had this theory that the reason so many of the ultra exensive collector cars exist now is because they never worked or could be driven regulary.

PS: Deep down I new that Cobra was worth the trade, even at 11, but try convincing a mature adult of that... my dad regularly kept up with the vettes in autocrosses and he had a roof and windows when it rained, and he could afford the gas it needed, no way was was he gonna trade for an old run down cobra with no windows.