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THE FUTURE COLLECTIBILITY AND VALUE OF OUR 2013/2014 SHELBY GT500s...
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<blockquote data-quote="USV8PWR" data-source="post: 13570902" data-attributes="member: 134833"><p>Here's a couple that come to mind...</p><p></p><p>1978 Corvette Indy Pace Car - Major investment flop. They built 6,500 or so of these and because it was featured on the cover of Wall Street journal and other hype people started buying them and storing them away thinking they would be gold. Which now some of them may start to bring in more than they stickered for but definitely a flop. Why? Obviously, the later C3s were unreliable, underpowered, and when the C4 came around irrelevant. The only reason these will gain now is due to nostalgia. </p><p></p><p>1990 to 1995 Corvette ZR1 - Major investment flop. They built 5K or so of these cars at $30K addition to a base Vette. Many folks stored them away thinking they would be worth gold later on. Unfortunately none of them realized the performance war was just heating up and that a car that at the time could do an incredible high 12 quarter mile and run 180 miles an hour would not be able to keep pace on ANY performance benchmark of even the standard Corvette by the time 2005 came around. Not only are the newer Vettes quicker, faster, have more features, and are safer, they get better fuel economy too. However, these cars will begin to go back up in value once the majority of them are gone. And this will come pretty soon. They have gotten so cheap now that many dirtbags have bought them up and destroyed them. Very sad ending for a car that was one of the American supercars of the 90's.</p><p></p><p>1992 to 2010 Dodge Viper-Major investment flop. Regardless of year and/or special edition they were always hurt by one major factor...the next one was always much, much better. And more powerful. Who wants an earlier 450HP GTS Viper from the 90's when 500HP became standard with the 2003 model, 600HP was the standard with the 2008, and a whopping 640HP complete with a mcuh modern and nicer interior became the standard for 2013??? But again, one day there will be very few older unmolested Vipers remaining (already seeing that now actually) and they will go up.</p><p></p><p>1994-1999, 2001 Ford Cobra SVT-Again, the cars kept getting a lot better with a lot more performance. The 2003/2004 cars made the 1999/2001 and earlier ones obsolete performance wise over night. Same with the R models. Love the R models and they fit the build for extremely low production. But as it has been shown, it doesn't just depend on low production it also really depends on stats. The production cars became better the race versions or earlier SVT models. We now have V6 Mustangs that are quicker than the early SVT Cobra models. As said in my original thread a new 2013 Shelby GT can do everything a 2003 SVT Cobra can, with more features, better fuel economy, and more comfortably. There there is the new Shelby! </p><p></p><p>Just a few that come to my mind and why they dropped like bricks. If the next gen Mustang annihlates this one as the previous 3 decades did over the decade before it then yes, this car will just be another great performer with semi-typical resale values yet still influenced by the fact that they were never overproduced at the beginning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="USV8PWR, post: 13570902, member: 134833"] Here's a couple that come to mind... 1978 Corvette Indy Pace Car - Major investment flop. They built 6,500 or so of these and because it was featured on the cover of Wall Street journal and other hype people started buying them and storing them away thinking they would be gold. Which now some of them may start to bring in more than they stickered for but definitely a flop. Why? Obviously, the later C3s were unreliable, underpowered, and when the C4 came around irrelevant. The only reason these will gain now is due to nostalgia. 1990 to 1995 Corvette ZR1 - Major investment flop. They built 5K or so of these cars at $30K addition to a base Vette. Many folks stored them away thinking they would be worth gold later on. Unfortunately none of them realized the performance war was just heating up and that a car that at the time could do an incredible high 12 quarter mile and run 180 miles an hour would not be able to keep pace on ANY performance benchmark of even the standard Corvette by the time 2005 came around. Not only are the newer Vettes quicker, faster, have more features, and are safer, they get better fuel economy too. However, these cars will begin to go back up in value once the majority of them are gone. And this will come pretty soon. They have gotten so cheap now that many dirtbags have bought them up and destroyed them. Very sad ending for a car that was one of the American supercars of the 90's. 1992 to 2010 Dodge Viper-Major investment flop. Regardless of year and/or special edition they were always hurt by one major factor...the next one was always much, much better. And more powerful. Who wants an earlier 450HP GTS Viper from the 90's when 500HP became standard with the 2003 model, 600HP was the standard with the 2008, and a whopping 640HP complete with a mcuh modern and nicer interior became the standard for 2013??? But again, one day there will be very few older unmolested Vipers remaining (already seeing that now actually) and they will go up. 1994-1999, 2001 Ford Cobra SVT-Again, the cars kept getting a lot better with a lot more performance. The 2003/2004 cars made the 1999/2001 and earlier ones obsolete performance wise over night. Same with the R models. Love the R models and they fit the build for extremely low production. But as it has been shown, it doesn't just depend on low production it also really depends on stats. The production cars became better the race versions or earlier SVT models. We now have V6 Mustangs that are quicker than the early SVT Cobra models. As said in my original thread a new 2013 Shelby GT can do everything a 2003 SVT Cobra can, with more features, better fuel economy, and more comfortably. There there is the new Shelby! Just a few that come to my mind and why they dropped like bricks. If the next gen Mustang annihlates this one as the previous 3 decades did over the decade before it then yes, this car will just be another great performer with semi-typical resale values yet still influenced by the fact that they were never overproduced at the beginning. [/QUOTE]
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