Baby Boomers cars market question.

In reply to aircooled :

Lol....That was my first car. Ice Blue metallic 65 mustang with the 200CI 3 speed. The only option was A/C. 

NOT A TA said:

Frenchy, this is the topic. Did you read the first post?

"I have been itching for awhile to get another vintage or muscle car from the 60's or 70's. Prices are still high in my opinion and I'm not rushing but is there ANY chance that it will come crashing down in the next 10 years? "

We're not discussing cars of the 30's, 40's, 50's, 80's, 90's, or garages, or maintenance costs, or highway traffic, or electric conversions, or steam conversions. Try to stay on topic.

When you're discussing things there are two ways to do so

Superficially and use one bit of logic to make your point 

Completely and add the various factors that will more completely make your point.  
 

Will muscle cars increase or decrease in cost the next decade.

 First  define a muscle car. Does it have  more than 400 gross horsepower or less? 
Is it in a Light body or  heavy body? 
Is it lightly optioned or completely optioned, Is it a coupe or sedan (or convertible)  is it American or Foreign  made?  Is it mass produced by the hundreds of thousands or limited production?  etc etc etc. 
 
Next define what you want.  A finished to a high degree or standard car, a Driver quality  car, a needs some work car or a complete project.  
 

Now define you, Young at the start of your life, 30's  -40's  raising a family, 50's -60's productive years, retirement.  
 

Finally  project likely future economic events.  Continued growth, Slow down, Down turn, recession, depression, regional wars, global wars. Plus population trends since we are discussing  supply and demand.  
 

My wife would have a spread sheet to use where you plug your answers in. 
Those of us who do it as a hobby or for fun won't care.  We aren't limited by 2nd grade math.  The Journey's what's important not the financial return. 
 

Everyone knows what he means when he says 60s-70s muscle car. Stop sperging. Boomers aren't supposed to sperg, anyhow. You're supposed to ramble about "pulling on those bootstraps" and how you put yourself through college working at the gas station, and "my generation went to the moon."

The "restomod" stuff will drop in value because 75% of it is poorly executed work, screwed together in jimbob joe's garage.

The last 20% follows a fad that will be over quickly, possibly before the car is finished.

Correct restorations, survivors and "Day two" cars will hold or gain value.

Sine_Qua_Non said:

I have been itching for awhile to get another vintage or muscle car from the 60's or 70's. Prices are still high in my opinion and I'm not rushing but is there ANY chance that it will come crashing down in the next 10 years?

Yes.

When the economy does go into recession everything will drop but the cars that are insanely over valued will drop more significantly. They will rebound, eventually, but those 57 Chev's that were selling for $50k in 1987 were back into the $20's only a few years later when there wasn't as much easy money floating around.

JamesMcD said:

Everyone knows what he means when he says 60s-70s muscle car. Stop sperging. Boomers aren't supposed to sperg, anyhow. You're supposed to ramble about "pulling on those bootstraps" and how you put yourself through college working at the gas station, and "my generation went to the moon."r

Everybody knows?  Is a Dodge  Dart with a 318 a muscle car?   A Nova with a 307? A Mustang with a six? 
Get off my lawn! 
Oh wait I haven't told you my Vietnam stories yet!  

frenchyd said:

JamesMcD said:

Everyone knows what he means when he says 60s-70s muscle car. Stop sperging. Boomers aren't supposed to sperg, anyhow. You're supposed to ramble about "pulling on those bootstraps" and how you put yourself through college working at the gas station, and "my generation went to the moon."r

Everybody knows?  Is a Dodge  Dart with a 318 a muscle car?   A Nova with a 307? A Mustang with a six? 
Get off my lawn! 
Oh wait I haven't told you my Vietnam stories yet!  

You're a good sport.

In reply to JamesMcD :

Tanxs 

I hope they start coming down. I still really want an early falcon wagon. I think the high end muscle cars will stay up while stuff like base models restomodded won't. Seems the current sweet spot for low price value is 73-78 smog era muscle.