Future collectables

[hvychev]

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1999 Z/28 1LE (last year of 1LE option, who can resist 1LE combined with LS1? 74 made)


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Check this out. Scroll down to the last car.

http://www.mtnhmweb.com/trmclassiccars.asp

This used to belong to a friend of mine and me. Kind of a cool story. I actually found this car on my dealerships used car lot! My general manager was bitching up a storm at the used car manager and said "Why the hell did you buy a Z28 with no power windows or locks from the auction!" Like a dog my ears perked up and I said huh? A Z with no power windows and locks? Imediately I thought 1LE. I ran down the stairs and was repeating over and over it can't be, it can't be. When I swung the door open and looked at the parts identification label in the door my heart stopped. I went back in the store and said "Hey Eric don't worry about it....I will buy it." He just looked at me blankly and shrugged his shoulders. I bought it with my friend Bill and put it up for sale. The car sat for sale for ever and finally Chris from TRM bought it and it has just been sitting since...I am shocked. When I advertised it I even said it was the COPO of the future and would be worth big bucks someday. No bites. I have to say that car is fast and cool as hell! A true bare fisted street warrior!

Attached is a pic of it when I was in on it.

[hvychev]

Here is a pic of the parts label when we had it. If I could have I would have kept it!

[mmcporter]

Frank, it's a small world. I had noticed the car on TRM's site and was wondering why it wasn't selling. The interest in the later 1LE hasn't come to a full boil yet, I guess.

Morris

[Tenney]

'96-'97 Viper GTS (Blue/wht.). A Hennessey car being a poss. Yenko (er, Mr. Norms) equivalent?

Agree w/the Supra take, too. Fast and Furious stuff'll likely be big down the road.

[GMC_Typhoon]

Hmmm,anybody think the GMC Syclones and Typhoons will be collectable? The bone stock low mileage ones are few and far between.
I inspected a local 4k mile 93 Ty that sold for 28k

[camarojoe]

I think just about everything will have SOME sort of collectibility to someone... while certain cars undoubtedly have more of a following than others, it seems regardless of what make, model, etc. something is, there is a die-hard following out there that will be interested in pristine examples, as examplified by the 28k Typhoon you mentioned. Those were quick little trucks, and most of them have long since been wrecked, cut up, or rotted away... so yeah, I can see where an unmolested low-milage original would be worth alot to someone interested in them. Those were only made for a couple years, and there aren't that many left. Ever notice how whenever GM gets something "right" they stop producing it a year or 2 later?

[DarrenX33]

Hey Joe, where does the Aztek fit in there?

[camarojoe]

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Hey Joe, where does the Aztek fit in there?

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As sad as it may be... in 20 years there will probably be an Official Pontiac Aztek Club, and people scouring the globe for NOS gray body cladding...

*edit.... it already exists!
Aztek Fan Club Website

[427TJ]

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I think just about everything will have SOME sort of collectibility to someone... while certain cars undoubtedly have more of a following than others, it seems regardless of what make, model, etc. something is, there is a die-hard following out there that will be interested in pristine examples

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"Ricers" may be ridiculous to many here, but stock, well cared for '90s Honda Accords and Civics might just be valuable in twenty years. Just as '60s Chevelles and Camaros, Mustangs, Chargers, etc., were the cars to have among the high school set 20-30 years ago, "ricers" are the current cars to have in this demographic. Today's 17 year old Honda tinkerer will someday be in his forties, have some play cash to spend, and he'll go looking for the car of his youth: a '95 Honda Accord. No, it won't be the same as Yenko money is today, but few guys even knew about Yenko cars in the '70s. Most of us drove run-of-the-mill modified Camaros and Mustangs and Mopars, many of which weren't SS or GT or R/T versions. There will be a market for nice '90s Hondas and Mitsubishis, etc., in twenty years, just as there is a market for nice '60s musclecars today. No, you won't get rich stashing a Honda away as you would if you'd been smart enough to stash away an unmolested Yenko Camaro 25 years ago, but nice "ricers" will probably be desireable someday.

Remember that in the '60s when the factory musclecar really came onto the scene, many of the older roadster and dry lakes hot rod types scoffed at the new Detroit high-performance cars. They scorned the new Detroit offerings just as many of us scorn Japanese cars today. History repeats itself.

[Steve_Hoog]

I don't care for rice burners but you have a very good point.