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98_No_Bra
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It's impossible to predict these kinds of things, of course. Some cars, like Ferraris and Rolls-Royces, are automatically going to be collectible, but those cars cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin with and they are produced in tiny batches.
For a mass-produced car to become collectible requires enormous demand among well-moneyed buyers. And collector tastes are fickle. There's no way to tell what collectors might think is cool 10 or 20 years from now.
Hagerty Insurance, a company that specializes in insuring collectible cars, decided to try anyway.
Last year, the company began routinely asking its roughly 50,000 customers to guess which of today's common consumer vehicles they thought might be hot collectibles decades from now.
The most surprising thing about the resulting list, said Hagerty Insurance president McKeel Hagerty, was the number of Japanese cars on the menu. And the relative absence of American cars.
"We see this pretty significant shift toward imports," Hagerty said.
Collectible Japanese cars are all but unheard of today. But, in the future, Toyota's Scion cars and its FJ Cruiser off-roader might be hot items at car auctions, Hagerty's customers predicted.
The only American cars were two Chrysler products, the Chrysler 300 and the Dodge Viper.
Cars that are hot now may not be so hot for collectors in the 2020's, Hagerty's survey predicted. Notably, the Ford Mustang did not make the list in any form. Nor did the Toyota Prius.
The main ingredients that make cars desirable, said Hagerty, are cool designs and honest performance. Cars that look hot but don't perform won't end up being desirable in the long term, he said.
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Stangs R Us
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im pretty sure foxbody saleens and cobras will be collectors and maybe even the mcclaren since its limited production even tho it might not look that good
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N8
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I can see Scions and the 300 being a collectors car. Fords SVT's and specialties will always have a home in the bracket IMO.
I actually want one of those boxy Scion van things, to use as company cars for trade shows. Get some nice wraps on there and go.
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andyman_2k01
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I heard on the radio today that Carol Shelby's 66 Shelby GT500 sold for $5.5 million!!! Now that is a collector car!
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Originally posted by andyman_2k01:
I heard on the radio today that Carol Shelby's 66 Shelby GT500 sold for $5.5 million!!! Now that is a collector car!
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Five Decimal Zero
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Originally posted by n8y8:
I can see Scions and the 300 being a collectors car. Fords SVT's and specialties will always have a home in the bracket IMO.
I actually want one of those boxy Scion van things, to use as company cars for trade shows. Get some nice wraps on there and go.
Here's my box...
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Yah that shelby sold for like 5.5 mill at barret. The guy that bought that car bought two others. He spent like 8 million on 3 cars!
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I dig those boxy vans.
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It wasn't a GT500 that sold for 5 mil., it was an original 66 Cobra (CSX3015) with a twin Paxton supercharged 427. It was Shelby's personal car dubbed the "Supersnake". Bill Cosby bought the only other one (CSX3033), only to sell it back, then it was sold to S&C Ford in S.F., then to a guy named Tony Maxey, who proceeded to kill himself by dring off the PCH into the Pacific. Supposedly, it is now in England being restored...
Posts: 1159 | From: Pioneer | Registered: Jul 2002
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Wildfire532FB
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I am positive imports WILL NOT be collectible cars in 10 to 20 years from today. All the imports i see on the roads today that are 20 years old are pieces of shit. Paint pealing off, 400K miles, interior gross. Theres no way a 06 Civic SI will be a collectible
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88DroptopGT
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Five Decimal Zero those rims are sick. Got any info on them?
I'm looking to get an Xb for a commuter when I graduate..
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Five Decimal Zero
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Originally posted by 88DroptopGT:
Five Decimal Zero those rims are sick. Got any info on them?
I'm looking to get an Xb for a commuter when I graduate..
Thanks... they are Sportmax Type 002 (gold are hard to find) 15x8 0 offset on stretched 195/45s.
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That has to be lowered. Get any rubbage on the road with a full cab?
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