Our cars will be worth a lot in just 50 years from now

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

That's exactly what will happen to self-driven automobiles, novelty, no super highways for the Luddites, but I bet when I die I'll still be able to drive an 86 across this country. Just like you can still ride a bicycle across it or ride a horse across it.

Will it be easy? Probably not, but all this doom and gloom is totally unfounded.

Yep. It may cost a fortune and be a hobby for the rich only but it will probably be doable. I know I won't see a day when you can't that is for sure.

[Braces]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Yep. It may cost a fortune and be a hobby for the rich only but it will probably be doable. I know I won't see a day when you can't that is for sure.

Hang in there Tcoat.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Braces

Hang in there Tcoat.

LOL If I last 15 more years I will be amazed. I choose my lifestyle and have come to terms with the inevitable result.

[Braces]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

LOL If I last 15 more years I will be amazed. I choose my lifestyle and have come to terms with the inevitable result.

I'm sure you've earned it.

[root]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

That's exactly what will happen to self-driven automobiles, novelty, no super highways for the Luddites, but I bet when I die I'll still be able to drive an 86 across this country. Just like you can still ride a bicycle across it or ride a horse across it.

Will it be easy? Probably not, but all this doom and gloom is totally unfounded.

It'll be like ExDriver, only specially certified people will be allowed to drive cars. Actually I often feel the certifications for current liscensing need to be tougher.

[Yardjass]

Originally Posted by Leonardo

LOL!

There were approx 9000 Delorians made. DMC-12 had a suggested retail price of $25,000 ($650 more when equipped with an automatic transmission); this is equivalent to approximately $65,181 in 2015. There are 6500 estimated to be still in existence.

This car has 3000 miles and is very minty. $39K buy it now. You would make more by just leaving the 25K in the bank, and not have to pay for storage.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-DeLorea...m=232171571854

I don't buy into the whole "pay for storage" thing. Fact is I'm going to have a sports car in the garage at all times anyway so the amount of extra money I would spend to store an "investment car" is exactly zero. I guess if you're Jay Leno or something, things are different but I look at the appreciated value of a rare car more as an extra perk that comes with my hobby than anything else.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Yardjass

I don't buy into the whole "pay for storage" thing. Fact is I'm going to have a sports car in the garage at all times anyway so the amount of extra money I would spend to store an "investment car" is exactly zero. I guess if you're Jay Leno or something, things are different but I look at the appreciated value of a rare car more as an extra perk that comes with my hobby than anything else.

You may not lay out cash but you are still "paying" when you store a car in your garage. You lose the use of the space for anything else which means you are making payments on a garage you only use for one thing.

[synchromesh]

Originally Posted by Yardjass

I don't buy into the whole "pay for storage" thing. Fact is I'm going to have a sports car in the garage at all times anyway so the amount of extra money I would spend to store an "investment car" is exactly zero. I guess if you're Jay Leno or something, things are different but I look at the appreciated value of a rare car more as an extra perk that comes with my hobby than anything else.

Someone in my building is trying to rent out a parking space for $175/month. The sad thing is I notice many stalls that are just completely empty for months now.


In some parts of the city it can easily cost over a quarter million dollars to convert a garage into a "laneway" home garnering easily over a $1000 a month in rent alone.


I postulate these trends to causal relationship as to why alpha males nowadays can't explain what the role of an alternator does in a car, can't disassemble a spent vacuum cleaner, and are double fisting their phones while leaving the front entrance of a nightclub while J-walking to the bus stop.

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

.... I bet when I die I'll still be able to drive an 86 across this country....

Wow... talk about super powers!

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Yardjass

I don't buy into the whole "pay for storage" thing. Fact is I'm going to have a sports car in the garage at all times anyway so the amount of extra money I would spend to store an "investment car" is exactly zero.

Please tell me what tires, oil, radiator fluid, rubber hoses, rubber belts, batteries, and lubricants never need replacing, especially after 50 years. I'm sure many of us would greatly appreciate the tip.

Not to mention your free mechanic to do a tune up on a 50 year old super car.

All cars need maintenance, the ones worth money usually double or triple the costs of the ones that aren't.

Originally Posted by synchromesh

I postulate these trends to causal relationship as to why alpha males nowadays can't explain what the role of an alternator does in a car, can't disassemble a spent vacuum cleaner, and are double fisting their phones while leaving the front entrance of a nightclub while J-walking to the bus stop.

Get out of the bubble the internet has created for you re-affirming your unfounded biases.

A. There are millions who do understand mechanical things.
B. The vast majority of the 'older generation' didn't understand those things at all and had their head up their ass with their radio soap operas browsing department store catalogs for frivolous shit instead of Amazon or whatever was trendy that decade that time forgot because it was just as stupid as caring too much about buzzfeed articles.

[8RZ]

I'm wrapping my 86 in Saran-wrap as we speak.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by 8RZ

I'm wrapping my 86 in Saran-wrap as we speak.

Oh that is the worst thing you can do! Hold all that nice moisture in there and all. At least use the breathable stuff.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

A. There are millions who do understand mechanical things.
B. The vast majority of the 'older generation' didn't understand those things at all and had their head up their ass with their radio soap operas browsing department store catalogs...

Excellent point. The ratio of hands-on people to the rest of the population hasn't changed.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Oh that is the worst thing you can do! Hold all that nice moisture in there and all. At least use the breathable stuff.

Wrap it in UV resistant stuff and park it in the middle of the desert.