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Originally Posted by bronzestarsky
Once the Skys achieve "collectible" status, it would be interesting to see which one can command a higher selling price at something like Barrett-Jackson: a stock 2.4, Redline, or Mallett V-8 conversion...
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I don't know a lot about collector cars, but I do happen to know a little about it.
Whether or not the car becomes collectable will be determined by how many are produced and those who want to collect them.
Take the Miata for example people thought they would be a very collectable car in the late 80’s early 90’s some even selling for twice sticker price. Now you can pick them up between 1-5K, new styles of course increase in price, but the first releases are virtually worthless. The new Miata looks stupid. I did like the version before it that looked like a copperhead that version maybe worth something in the future maybe 10 years from now.
Also it depends on the collectors.
Take for example the Fiat Spyder 1981-1985 these cars in America are not that collectable. I bought seven in the junk yard for $700. In Germany they never got any of these cars and there were so few made Germans had to have them. They would come here and purchase the cars paying 9-15K for the cars restored in the late 89 and early 93 then they would sell them in Germany for upwards of 35K today. So it depends on the collectors and countries that have limited access to these cars.
If they were to stop production today I would say it would be a very collectable car, but there will probably be many made. So it will never be a rare car until almost all are gone crushed and used as paper weights probably 30 years from now. I am sure by then Gasoline powered cars will be in Museums. We probably won’t even have streets and gasoline will be illegal to possess.
We as a society are the verge of a major change in transportation in the next 20 years. The Internet is going become the major market place with virtual areas in which we can basically travel talk with people in multiple environments created through software virtually eliminating the need to physically travel.
Working from home will be the norm and in 40 years. The internet will be the place where all business is done. Now of course there still will be shipping, receiving and other things like that, but they are working on teleportation as we speak and of my last reading on the subject had transported a not just a particle, but a molecule. So who is to say that in 40 years we will need trucks or vehicles we will be able to zap people and goods from place to place instantly. The thought of driving will be unheard of and boring.
Even traveling at the speed of light to destination to destination will probably be outweighed by the sheer magnitude of the online virtual worlds which will have no limit. I imagine a world where I can fly like superman does anything! Heck even with a thought have a long winding hilly road I can run my car virtual Sky RL through its paces to reminisce.
Taking a look back from 1900 to 2000 look at the leaps we made. Since our technology is quantitative breaking new milestones will probably happen in 50 years instead of 100 and the next will be 25 instead of 50 and so on.