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Originally Posted by Tcoat
If you calculate the inflation on the purchase price I bet if you owned that car since new you would lose money on that sale.
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1969 Car and Driver test of the entire Porsche lineup has it 'as tested' at $7736, base price would be $7195.
http://media.caranddriver.com/files/...s-mar-1969.pdf
http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...omparison-test
Which according to this calculator $7.7k in '69 is $51k in today's money:
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc...969&year2=2017
You'd lose money accounting for running costs, but not on raw price of the car itself.
The real base model 912 was tested at $5.7k, which would be ~$38k in today's dollars, here's two selling for just that with 78k and 108k on the clock:
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1969-porsche-912-6/
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/196...2-soft-window/
And here's one selling for much less:
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/69-porsche-912/
And one for much more:
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1969-porsche-912-5/
Early 911's are my... interest. But I see these prices reflected in Mustangs and Camaros and even more lowly cars of the era (just like you said, some random Chevy sedan going for $20k+). The early to mid '70s don't seem to have taken off as well as I thought they would have, but to be fair it wasn't a great era. Consequently I think I may be a bit wrong on early '80s cars as well, but I think mid 80's onwards to the mid 90's are going to see a large upswing over the next 10-20 years.
Go back 10 years and say "Man that 15 year old Miata in british racing green is going to be worth over $10k someday" and 95% of everyone would have laughed in your face. But here we are.
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/199...ecial-edition/
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1991-miata-se/
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/199...-racing-green/
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/199...-mx-5-miata-2/