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I have been looking at cars a lot. I know a few collectors. It is easy to see what is hot now and what is desirable. It is not always so easy to pick out a car that will become collectible in the future. Many people can see a car that sells for a lot of money and say that they used to own one of those. I hear people say all the time that they remember when a specific car was affordable.
Two cars that I have looked at may just end up being the car to have in the future.
One is the Ford Thunderbird built from 2001 till 2005
I have been looking at cars a lot. I know a few collectors. It is easy to see what is hot now and what is desirable. It is not always so easy to pick out a car that will become collectible in the future. Many people can see a car that sells for a lot of money and say that they used to own one of those. I hear people say all the time that they remember when a specific car was affordable.
Two cars that I have looked at may just end up being the car to have in the future.
One is the Ford Thunderbird built from 2001 till 2005
Both were duds......Thunderbird was a throwback car to when they were desirable and Crossfire was Chrysler's attempt to make a Mercedes knockoff at a lower price point.
I have seen some duds make it into the collector market. Both of these cars were built in low numbers. I like both of them. A friend that owns a 57 TBird, a 67 Mustang, and a few other cars picked up a 2005 T Bird and mentioned that it will more than likely become a collector car.
I am really impressed with the Crossfire. You can find some amazing examples that are in very good condition for way under $10,000.
They will have their following, but they really don't have all the characteristics that usually make up a top collector car in general. Their volumes were still way too high for true rarity, even though the volumes are low for production car values. Add the fact they were market place duds, and the future classic interest is bound not to be too high either. Lets not pretend they were great sports or GT cars, top in their class, and they just got ignored either. They were really performance disappointments in the marketplace, underperforming sports cars and roadsters costing they competed with, and some priced considerably lower.
Years down the road, they will not be too common and therefore, will be interesting and unique. They also may not end up worthless. They just won't be commanding an overabundance of money either.
The exception could potentially be the Crossfire SRT-6. Particularly the SRT-6 roadster. The volumes of those are very low. Lack of present day interest won't help though.
Personally, I have always really liked the Crossfire. I thought it was a cool and unique styling direction at the time. I thought they drove ok too. I just do not see them as a true collectible.
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While there will always be a certain number of enthusiasts of one car or another and clubs supporting them, the real classic cars are those that people remember from their youth, when they first started driving (and wish they had one then). Back in the late 60s-early 70s there was the great muscle car era, and teens lived for the day they could get their license and drive. Many did their own maintenance, upgrades and even customization. Now most cars look alike, and few young drivers know a box wrench from a ratchet, never mind the complications of the modern vehicle such as ECM and PCM. Add to that the delay in getting a license, with social media replacing the need to hang out in someone's car. I don't expect any cars of the 90s or beyond to become collector cars or classics, other than maybe the Hellcats and Vipers, Ford GT, and foreign super cars such as Ferrari and Lamborghini.
probably the mid 00's Pontiac LS1/LS2 GTO and LS3 G8 GT/GTP as well as the original NSX with the early 00's mid-model face-lift Dodge Ram 1500 SRT-10 with the Viper V-10, 2005-2006 Ford GT
I currently own a 2005 Crossfire Roadster and I think that 30 years or so down the road it may become collectable. I will probably be gone by then so I plan on driving mine into the ground. The car has a quite rabid fan base and there will no doubt be low mileage pampered examples running around in 2046. I think the Thunderbird and the Cadillac xlr offer the same level of future collectability.
How collectable a car becomes can sometimes have little to do with how popular that vehicle was when it was released. Lets face it, 30, 40 or 50 years from now anything still around form the 80's, 90's or 2000's will have some collectability to it, especially sport or performance models.
My son has a Plymouth Prowler and a Ford Coupe. Both are collectibles, I think.
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