What other Classic/Collector Cars/Trucks do you own?

[bliss]

Originally Posted by TN Shelby Cobra

I'm so glad you enlightened me on your great knowledge of Mustangs! Thanks!!!

Sarcasm will not make your Mustang a classic/collector car in your lifetime. I'll give you $5,000 for it, delivered to me in CA and subject to inspection. I'll also need for you to pay the sales tax and license fee, plus a smog check fee. That way, the purchase will be an 'classic' in many ways, for you and for me.

(Sarcasm is just another service that I also offer)


With that said, do you have anything to say about the facts posted above? All I'm saying - your car will never be a classic - it will simply devalue itself as it sits in your garage - I also have two of those type cars - a Lincoln and another Ford.

By the way, you didn't buy the 'stang as an investment, right?

[TN Shelby Cobra]

I'm sorry I posted on your thread! I guess every site has to have a person like you! You do post some great things on the JOKE page!!

[bliss]

What did I do to upset you? I simply don't see modern cars turning into classic/collector cars as have cars pre-1980's. I could be wrong - I was just asking why you think that your mustang does and will continue to have classic/collector status.

You've got to have $40K+ in the car and it's now worth $28K or less, so when will you be able to breakeven?

[snakebittexan]

Delivered July 2012

[JoeT]

The roadster shares garage space with a '66 mustang 'vert....and I'm shopping now for a '66-67 GTO vert

[Tommy]

My other classic car is a 1963 Corvette coupe. I've owned it since 1978. ... I like this shade of red.

[bliss]

Originally Posted by Tommy

My other classic car is a 1963 Corvette coupe. I've owned it since 1978. ... I like this shade of red.

Talking about a 63 Red Vette...





Corvette. 2600 HP Turbo. Built by Rod Saboury.

Can be purchased for only $425,000!

63 Vette

[Tommy]

The builder claims that twin-turbo Vette has 2,400 HP, is streetable, does 0-60 in one second, and runs the quarter in the sixes. .... But I don't think he has a Cobra, so he doesn't count here.

[marco246]

1971 Alfa Romeo 1750 GT Veloce. Beautiful little autocrosser even if a bit short of power.

[CobraBoy]

Aside from my Vauxhall Vectra GSi 3.2 V6 for every day , I also own a 1966 Singer Chamois (Hillman Imp) race car - 930 cc, heavily modified, estimated 90 horsepower and under 1500 pounds ...



... And a 1975 Triumph Stag - 3.0-litre Triumph V8, manual transmission, undergoing full restoration by me.

No Cobra yet, though. Some day.

Paul

[Blue66]

Originally Posted by bliss

I simply don't see modern cars turning into classic/collector cars as have cars pre-1980's. I could be wrong - I was just asking why you think that your mustang does and will continue to have classic/collector status.

I call it a different generation. We have had a lot of the 86/87 Buick V6 Turbo's over the years. (My daughter is heavily into them ) . I still have a 66 GT350 convert we bought in 1974. Guys will come to my place for Buick parts an walk right buy the Shelby. 99.9% don't know or care what the car is. Look at the kids today with all the rice stuff. Their performance car will be a Honduh

[bliss]

Originally Posted by Blue66

I call it a different generation. We have had a lot of the 86/87 Buick V6 Turbo's over the years. (My daughter is heavily into them ) . I still have a 66 GT350 convert we bought in 1974. Guys will come to my place for Buick parts an walk right buy the Shelby. 99.9% don't know or care what the car is. Look at the kids today with all the rice stuff. Their performance car will be a Honduh

I see your point, but kids now are simply doing the same thing that those of us that came of age in the late 50's and 60's - purchase and fix up whatever is affordable. I'm saying that when the current crop of kids get older they will not crave Buick's from the late eighties - causing them to increase in value based on the demand - or practically any other car made since the 70's. Yes, some of them will still be 'fun' to have, but will they increase in value at the same pace as, say muscle cars from the 60's have to date?

Guys will come to my place for Buick parts an walk right buy the Shelby.

I also wonder about this part - once we all pass on, will the next generation 'support' the market for Shelby's from the 60's, Corvettes, etc? Just because we crave them and have them, will they even want them and be willing to pay an increasing price or will the market evaporate - sort of like gone with the wind?

[BAsque1]

1983 Jeep CJ-7 Fully restored off frame ---Can be purchased for $14,000.00 OBO
1996 Ford Bronco XLT Original Mint (Never for sale)
1967 Volvo 123 GT Original (sold then purchased the Cobra;-))

[bran3b]

'71 MGB-GT
'78 MGB roadster
'79 Porsche 928
Sold the '65 Mustang in preparation for a move that didn't happen, replaced it with the 928

[snakewench]

Picked up an unmolested '69 Chevy C10 Shortie a few months back...she's at the resto shop right now for full frame-off. Hope to pick her up next month, then drop the tired 350 for an all-aluminum 427!

Pretty soon she and Aunt Bea will be out in the garage together swapping stories about the screamin' sixties!

[bliss]

Originally Posted by snakewench

Picked up an unmolested '69 Chevy C10 Shortie a few months back...she's at the resto shop right now for full frame-off. Hope to pick her up next month, then drop the tired 350 for an all-aluminum 427!

Pretty soon she and Aunt Bea will be out in the garage together swapping stories about the screamin' sixties!

I have a '70 Chevy CST10 Stepside - it's a driver. What's the ballpark cost for the restore that you noted on your '69, excluding the engine?

By the way, the 60's was the most recent decade that wasn't almost totally forgettable, except for the music of the 70's and early 80's.

[snakewench]

Originally Posted by bliss

I have a '70 Chevy CST10 Stepside - it's a driver. What's the ballpark cost for the restore that you noted on your '69, excluding the engine?

By the way, the 60's was the most recent decade that wasn't almost totally forgettable, except for the music of the 70's and early 80's.

Amen to that, Bliss! I was born in '60 (oh dear, I just gave up my age, didn't I?), and as far back as memory allows I have been a car fanatic. I'd always loved the 67-72 C10's; my dad took delivery of one of the first K5 Blazers in TX back in '69. He taught me to drive in that truck when I was just 9 years old...what a wonderful memory...saw my first Cobra (an original) that same year and fell in love!

As far as this truck goes, the full frame-off nut 'n bolt resto with shaved drip rail, shaved door handles, fuel tank relocation to bed, etc will run just shy of 20k. I'd love to have done some of the work myself but, sadly, I have neither the time nor the expertise. I am merely a weekend tinkerer!

[snakewench]

Well crap...follow-up to the post I entered a couple of hours ago re: '69 C10 resto...

Just got off the phone with the resto shop...seems that the shop owner died in his sleep over the weekend. I didn't know him well, but he really did look like a walking stroke, so not all that suprising. Sheesh...that poor guy was my age, 52, and the shop guys have no idea what will now become of the business. And, unfortunately, my truck is still in a million pieces. Oy veh...



I need to go drive my Cobra now so I can smell those roses!!!

[bliss]

WOW, now that's a bit of bad luck on the '69. Perhaps someone will step up within the business to take over the projects.

Anyway, $20K sounds about right + the engine. I've thought about upgrading my '70, but I've already got $6.5K in it as purchased - it's a 4X4 with working air conditioning - and purchased in CA - prices are higher here. I'm torn between fixing it up and selling/trading it for one that's been already completed. There are more than a few trucks out there in that year range that simply could not be re-built for the price.

By the way, although I'm older then you - I as well fell in love with the Cobra back in the '60's, as well as C10's in the late '60's, early '70's, but always liked the '55 Chevys as well - ending up with all of them at this time - a replica Cobra, of course.