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Originally Posted by Mr.Impreza
Well you never know...with the trend of hybrids and no manual gear boxes cars like this could become little gems.
The thing is it always depends on the value of who is buying.
Someone like me...if i won the lottery...i wouldn't run out to lamborghini....i would run out and try to find mint RX-7's, Supra, Silvia's etc haha
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But here's the thing, Corvettes and 911's, the top dollar cars are going for for mid 6 figures now, lets be optimistic, $150k today, $6k new for both. $6k inflation adjusted today is ~$45k, at best you're doing about 3x your initial investment minus all the costs of keeping it in good condition and realistically average cars are much closer to the $50k-$60k mark, that's a loss if you kept it on the road the whole time even as a low mileage weekend car.
And that's after 50 fucking years of waiting on cars that were top dollar then. The equivalent of the FRS is an MGB or TR6 or GT6, respectively $10k, $14k, and $10k average values today.
The only way to make money on cars is to buy when they are rock bottom, a guy who picks this thing up for the equivalent of $5k today but in about 10 years and can keep it going and alive for another 30 years after that may be golden, like the guys who picked up long hood 911's for a couple hundred bucks in the 70's and early 80's. We are not those guys today.
Edit: Agreed on the lottery winnings, cars that are legitimately fun to drive and own and beat the hell out of, I don't think I could spend more than $50k on a car today with the exception of a new Porsche but I would be under no delusions that they would be a hobby and not an investment.
Edit: Oh you probably meant the last generations of those cars that all got built into F&F Dyno Queens...