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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon
Meh, Minis are cute, goofy little oddballs. They're collectible in spite of being FWD. Toronado? That's a rolling freak show right there.
If you want to find me at a classic car show, start with the weirdest sports cars and work your way back to the Pantera.
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Originally Posted by Leonardo
I have to admit, after thinking about what you said, the FWD celica and corolla are not the classic ones. And if the prelude was RWD from honda also, the FWD version would not be the one... hmmmmm.
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Couldn't agree more. Heck, I even fall into that a bit. The first car I owned that I paid more than $1,000 for was a 1977 Honda Civic Wagon purchased in 1980. I absolutely loved that car. It was exactly like the one below except it had a u shaped bar on the front bumper and had larger/wider tires on the back (even though it was FWD, the original owner didn't really understand that).
If I stumbled across a solid original or a good restored one today I'd buy it. Of course, they have all pretty much rusted away to nothing by now. it was a great, fun car with lots of good memories.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't go seeking out one, and would not pay stupid "Barrett Jackson" type money for it. But as a little runaround it would be fun to own.
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
There is a huge RWD bias here so the perception is that FWD will never be classic or collectable. Slip over to any performance forum for the FWD cars and see how big the following for them is. To think that those same people will not want the car of their youth in 30 years is mistaken. There will be car shows with middle aged men drooling overpriced out Civics, Celicas and even Neons because "I had one just like this". I doubt the family that bought that bottom trim Chev in 1955 sat around and said "oh boy this car will be huge in 50 years or so" but even a rotted hulk can now be sold to some guy that had one during his glory years in 1972. We are still too close to the age of these FWD cars for them to seem collectable or classic but their day will come. Not all "classic"cars are good and not all good cars become "classics". It really boils down to what the old guys in each generation had or wanted when they were young.
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I personally think the Integra GSR/Type R will be a future collectors car even though it is FWD. During the 90s it was consistently one of the most stolen cars in the country. Finding a clean one is tough today, and 20 years from now will be almost impossible. I already see clean ITRs selling for over 20k these days. The GSR isn't going for nearly as much, but 20 years from now, you never know.
Almost everyone I know has fond memories of 90s Integras, both car people and non-car people.