Future Collector Cars

SILVER-ES · Post by **SILVER-ES** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:26 pm

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/16/autos/f ... /index.htm

Only two domestics - Dodge Viper and Chrysler 300

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:30 pm

i don't honestly see the scion xB ever becomming a collectable... but o..k....

I still want one!

bone-yard-racing · Post by **bone-yard-racing** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:28 pm

Only 3 of those will ever be colleciable
1.) NSX
2.) Viper
3.) Elise

The only reason is that those cars are the only ones that we look up to today. I would sell body parts for any of those cars. Dont count out our cars either we if you look at it all own the modern equivlant of challengers/'cudas my breakdow
AAR=ACR
R/T=R/T
HEMI=SRT4
Then there are the shelby dodges.

MoxHair · Post by **MoxHair** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:35 pm

a Smart car was on the list?

yea.. you can take this list with a grain of salt cause they have no idea what they are talking about

quicksilvr · Post by **quicksilvr** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:52 pm

In 1971, no-one would have guessed that a stock Plymouth muscle car would ever be worth millions of dollars.

That's the whole point. I bet every one of those cars will be collectible to some degree. I mean heck, a '67 Slant-6 Dodge Dart is a collector car now....that was just a regular car back in the 60's. Didn't make waves at all...

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:55 pm

MoxHairR/T wrote:a Smart car was on the list?

yea.. you can take this list with a grain of salt cause they have no idea what they are talking about

quicksilvr · Post by **quicksilvr** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:08 pm

Whaaaa...you don't buy that one?

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:56 pm

MoxHairR/T wrote:...you can take this list with a grain of salt cause they have no idea what they are talking about

It's flattering that the only American cars on their list are CG products.

[start rant]

I think that SRT-4s will be very collectible in 10-20 years due to their being the modern equivalent of, say Duster 340s, Road Runners, 'Cudas, Challengers, etc. That is, if any manage to survive. It breaks my heart to see all of the pic posts of wrecked and riced-out SRTs and also knowing how hard some of these poor cars have been driven. I am not saying that mods are bad or that these cars don't beg to be really put to the test. But so many have been sent to early graves and there won't be any more when these are gone, folks.

[/end rant]

Post by **Diablo0** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:54 am

Hmmm, really would have thought the Prowler would been on there but eh...

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:52 am

y roomie tole me abotu this list the other day.. effign

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Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:53 am

Forgot about the Prowler, you're right.

Post by **Diablo0** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:36 am

Yah, I'm mean seeing as how it was a pretty unique car for those few years and that it didn't last very long... I really think that would be something that could turn into quite the collector. Hell you hardly ever see one on the streets and if you do, man, even if they are all Autos and pretty slow I still think they're awesome to look at just for how different they are compared to every other car on the road. Another car I'd really love to own just to cruise around with the top down.

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:47 am

do they even have a top to put up?!

Post by **Diablo0** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:01 am

Yeah, it's a standard soft top.

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:53 pm

<:tardbang: thanks for the info, never seen one with teh tiop up, so i never knew it had a top

J-Villa · Post by **J-Villa** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:50 pm

i still wanna find a nyc acr 4door 5spd single cam.....talk about rare lol.....collector cars can be anything....it's what you like and restore ect....."collector cars" are just the more popular ones taht everyone does

Nick Drake · Post by **Nick Drake** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:11 pm

I'm on the ball already.

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:52 pm

CRX will never be a "collectors car"...

I do think when I hit up the states I'll be looking for a clean DD CRX though

Mopar00Neon · Post by **Mopar00Neon** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:48 pm

Id like to see a collector truck list...
I have an early production 1989 chevy short bed/extended cab 'survivor'. For those who dont know, '89 was the first year for extended cab short beds, '88s were all long beds. And prior to that, there were no chevy extened cabs, save for the few custom made ones. 360k miles and still running like a top. And look how common/popular they are now.

bone-yard-racing · Post by **bone-yard-racing** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:12 pm

Well for people like me (TD geeks) I am very happy that the shelby supersnake went for $5,000,000 earlyer today. Next time I see that GLHS I'll try a little harder to talk him out of it.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:37 pm

TNK wrote:<:tardbang: thanks for the info, never seen one with teh tiop up, so i never knew it had a top

a friend of mine has a prowler...or had one...cant remember if he still has that or not. It was nice, but he said it was so slow. But then compared to a viper (he had 2) i bet it was

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:02 pm

i want to be friends with your friends

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:30 pm

there are some pretty amazing cars around here....alot of them that you wouldnt expect in this area.

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:16 pm

A prowler has always been one of my dream cars. I've wanted one ever since I could remember.

I've only ever seen one here in Toledo, and it's far from slow to say the least.

glasswars · Post by **glasswars** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:03 pm

surprised the new z06 didn't make it

Post by **Diablo0** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:55 am

Opi wrote:A prowler has always been one of my dream cars. I've wanted one ever since I could remember.

Same here and every time I see one on the road which is always once in a blue moon they always look so amazing. They're usually on eBay for fairly cheap and I've just always loved the looks of them, they're just so different to look at from anything on the road.

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:03 am

That's what I've always gone for too Jason. I love how the Prowler looks NOTHING like any other car on the road.

I've never been one for a car going fast, just looking good. And god do those cars look good.

koreysxt · Post by **koreysxt** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:53 pm

I'm surprised by a lot of those ....

kc2005ptgt · Post by **kc2005ptgt** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:05 pm

quicksilvr wrote:
In 1971, no-one would have guessed that a stock Plymouth muscle car would ever be worth millions of dollars.
That's the whole point. I bet every one of those cars will be collectible to some degree. I mean heck, a '67 Slant-6 Dodge Dart is a collector car now....that was just a regular car back in the 60's. Didn't make waves at all...

One of my friends dad has bothkinds of cars - the 67 dart and a 71 hemi cuda :drool:

And here is my problem with there little "list":

Last year, the company began routinely asking its roughly 50,000 customers to guess which of today's common consumer vehicles they thought might be hot collectibles decades from now

Who did they ask, 50,000 people who live in suburbia america making 100k+ a year and drive HUMMERS and suv's, ma and pa who work for a living their fingers to the bone and scrape and save each month just to get by and drive a beater, maybe the inner city where only one single income family with 3 kids and they maybe just take the bus and dont own cars.... these kind of things matter!!! Besides, these type of "polls" are in no way a good clue of anything other than what people find "hot" now.

I would say there are some cars from 20 yrs ago that are becoming collectors now; maybe a daytona, or the t-bird sc/tc or perhaps the 5.0 stang conv... what about olds cutlass'? Or maybe even some new cars like the 99 mitsu eclipse gsx - rarer and rarer to find in stock form and good shape, already well over priced for a 8yr old+ car... or good cond acura type-r's... civic si's, or 95 nyg acr's... see, the list is biased in so many ways...

ok, Im through, sorry.