Larry:
As vice president of the VCCC (Vintage Car Club of Canada) and at the
tender age of ONLY 39....there is a very good reason that the OLDER marques
are loosing their popularity....a dieing older generation and a surgence of
baby boomers.
My drivers in the '70's were old cars......60s MG's & Triumphs even a 50
TD, 58 Ford 2 door and the first car I ever had in my life was a 35 Chev I
paid $250 for and drove it for years , still got it!
Our FATHERS were the war vets that remember the TD's and Model A's NOT US.
Look whats selling for the big bucks now, 60-70 Muscle cars. That's what
our kids remember....
Thanks
Bryce Mack
'30 Essex Sun Sedan Convert.
'35 Chev Master Sport
'37 Buick Special
'57 TR-3 Smallmouth
'65 Austin Healey BJ-8
'66 Lincoln 4 Dr Convert.
Please drop by my personal car related website:
HTTP://mypage.direct.ca/b/bmack/
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From: Larry Schilling <lchillin@siu.edu>
To: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@scruznet.com>
Cc: TRIUMPHS@autox.team.net
Date: Wednesday, June 04, 1997 11:12 AM
Subject: Future Past.
>Its sad to see the past slip away when its your past. We are like just
>about any group who had our hearts captured by a type of car. When the
>people who wanted them in their teenage and young twenties die off or
stop
>driving, the car's value goes down, and it gets harder to find someone to
>love the cars. This happended to the restored Model As and most of the
>pre-WWII cars. I've already noticed that the T series MGs don't seem to
be
>worth what they used to command.
>
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Carrying this logic on to the next generation, maybe I should snatch up
all
these '80s Mazda RX 7's and Honda CRX's that I see advertised for peanuts
with the thought that they will be desirable in the near future to the
people who owned them in their youth..
For example from a local trader...
1985 Mazda RX 7: rotary 5 spd.
needs paint, runs good, full power,
moon roof, 4 wheel disks.
$1,000
1985 Mazda RX7: rotary 5 spd.
some dents, needs fuel pump,
as is $750.
or how 'bout
1985 Volkswagen Golf GTI
drivable, runs good.
$500
These prices are like what LBCs were going for about 10 years ago.
lchillin@siu.edu
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