Stu,
Personally I think there are just about the right number of Tigers out there
to become very sought after. When I was heavy into coin collecting I found
that an extremely rare coin with only 2 or 3 available definitely brought an
outrageous price. If there were too many of a certain coin available...they
were
worth practically nothing. When there were 25 or 50 thousand available, then
it was possible for the typical collector to own one and there were thousands
and thousands of these typical collectors world wide and they would drive the
price way above what it's rarity would justify.
I think the Tiger fits into this category. Many, many car collectors could
afford it at $25,000 -$30,000 and I believe the cars would bring this with the
proper exposure. I think that is the part that has been missing. I believe
this will only come with Tigers being shown at car shows and being featured in
magazines, commercials, etc... I think over the past 5 years with the
exposure on the Internet (Tiger list, Ebay and such) that we have seen the
average
prices climb about 25-50%. Stop and think, do you think anyone would have paid
anywhere near $40,000 5 years ago for a pretty good original Tiger? I think 5
years ago that about $20,000 would have been the limit for this car. As the
price rises, the car ads a little mystique and becomes more desirable. I
have a friend who owns a ladies apparel shop. A piece of jewelry that wouldn't
sell for $89 sold pretty well when the price was raised to $250. People like
things that are a little expensive...figure they must be good "if they cost
that much" :-)
Just my 2 cents.
Mark L.
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