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Reply to "Vintage New Car Price Increase?"

As an avid collector of many items that suffer from market bubbles and fatigue I've seen this same sentiment on all of my regular collector/builder websites as of late. As stated earlier Inflation, shaky resource markets for the manufacturers, supply/demand, pop culture trending (ie: everything Porsche has gone through the roof, my 68 911 SWB Coupe is literally worth $40k more now than 12 months ago) are all good for us in general as it raises the "floor" on the worth of our cars and as real PCars are heading into funny money where OG 550's are $5-6M Singer/Emory builds are $1M plus, 914-6's for 120K+, hell I even saw a $85K 914 get sold a few weeks back it can only benefit us until the market bubble resets.

As for  our "market" I'm not sure if any of you collect watches but Rolex is experiencing the same thing as Porsche and variants. Production numbers are low and waitlists are long (1-3years) so if you want one now you pay the premium on the grey market. That grey market drives up the costs for the everyday dudes like us which is good if you already own, sucks if you're just now getting into the market as the barrier for entry is higher thus more risk.

I'm sure like many of you I'm not in this for the ROI necessarily and as with all things that catch fire eventually the true enthusiasts get kind of cut out which is a real bummer. This happened to me in the hot rod space (1930-36 Fords) not too far back as well as well and to combat price gouging and try our part to slow the "grey market" a large group of us would barter and trade builds and services to keep our costs low and let the people who were in the moment do their own thing. I've even done under market agreed upon value first right of refusal sales to keep cars in the hands of people who will truly enjoy the car. Its not a perfect science but its also kind of goes with this crazy thing we do right?

Just think of it this way.... You were trendsetters and market makers

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