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Originally Posted by funwheeldrive
I think these cars are going to be like the integra gsr or prelude. They made a decent amount of the twins, but a lot of them are already pretty heavily modified, and that number is only going to increase. Sure, they won't go up in value, but stock, clean examples of these cars will still be desirable years from now imo.
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They're not "heavily modified" the way that cars were during the heyday of the cars you mentioned. When the import tuner market started to blow up ~15 years ago, not everyone knew what they were doing. It was trendy for your car to not be stock, and very few people thought about the long term... so people were physically modifying things, especially before aftermarket parts were massed produced. In the beginning before companies were flooding the market with aftermarket parts, people were cutting stock springs, having custom exhausts made, etc. So a lot of mods were done that weren't easily reversible or without their lasting negative effects, especially once people started doing weird paintjobs or putting headlights/taillights from different cars onto theirs with a lot of bondo and patience. Plus since the market was in its infancy while a lot of those getting into it were fairly young, all of that shortsightedness combined with changing laws made things like law enforcement and smog tests a huge pain in the ass in the end.
Nowadays, even the younger crowd who is the same age I was when I first got into modding at least knows what they're up against. Sure, there are some who do things to the car anyway that will end up having similar lasting negative effects (i.e. the Hellaflush crowd), but they at least have the knowledge available that we didn't have, or had to learn the hard way. It is for this reason that I haven't modded a single car since the Honda I had 10-15 years ago.