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Originally Posted by wodin
If that's your thing there is something to be said about picking up a nicely restored classic. You can get a decent sixties something Mustang for around the price of a new Mustang.
What you don't get is 21st century technology or new car depreciation, and you can get that new car smell in a can. In fact if you chose carefully and are lucky you might just get an appreciation rate that's better than a certificate of deposit.
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Ohhhhhhhhh, don't. We live quite near the January Barrett-Jackson auction. We now live further away from it than we did 7 years ago--nearly within walking distance of our home at that time in Scottsdale--and I have to restrain BOTH of us, annually, as my mindset is...better to look and drool over the TV, than to risk the two of us and a checkbook or cc at the actual bloody auction.
Plus, to be honest--I used to prefer the auction when it had what I consider to be classics--all the Dusenbergs, etc.--rather than muscle cars. When it comes to muscle cars, been there, done that,
way back.
Generally speaking, outside of automotive royalty (the Veyron, the GT, Roller, that tasty little Bentley convertible that I've been lusting after, the Audi R8-have you EVER been in one?--OM*F!!!--almost any "real" Porsche, and of course, the Enzo, and a few others), my real, everyday automotive tastes are
fairly simple. I like the VW CC, for example. Perfectly suitable. The Audis--a hundred zillion years ago, I had a Fox, when I was living in Germany. I like all of them, in the midsize line. I no longer need an A8 for business, or any other larger sedan with 4drs.
So, not going to give in to restored older-car craziness. Hell..a few more years, not many, and my
own damn car will be a nicely-restored pseudo-classic. At the point that I really consider giving her the heave-ho, I'll pass her on to some young family member in desperate straits, and find some nice "gently owned" second-hand car to toddle around in until she or I croak, whichever comes first. :-)
Hitch