Thoughts on this Hobby

[richard crow]

the hobby is getting to expensive.

[rockfla]

Flathead Fever


That is a list of "Dreams" there!!!! Some I can only "wish" I could afford and enjoy.

[19Fordy]

Originally Posted by richard crow

the hobby is getting to expensive.

It's all relative to the cost of earning a living. Labor rates are through the roof.
As has been mentioned in other comments in other threads about the future of our hobby, auctions show the price of early Fords is dropping.
Younger folks want muscle cars and old cars with modern technology and drivability at highway speeds.

[GB SISSON]

To the generation now coming into the hobby a 65 mustang IS an old car and to many it's an ancient car. A stock prewar ford is as exciting to them as a stock brass era model T was to us. 'Quaint, but what do you do with it?' As far as labor rates, 2 days ago I learned that the three primary auto repair shops on the island are 165.00/hr, 185.00/hr and 200.00/hr. Fortunately it's been many years since I have had a car worked on.

[PeteVS]

Originally Posted by GB SISSON

To the generation now coming into the hobby a 65 mustang IS an old car and to many it's an ancient car. A stock prewar ford is as exciting to them as a stock brass era model T was to

A friend just bought a 2000 Lincoln? Here in New Jersey you can put "QQ" (historic) plates on anything 25 years old or older. He put them on his newest car.

[BlueSunoco]

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Originally Posted by PeteVS

A friend just bought a 2000 Lincoln? Here in New Jersey you can put "QQ" (historic) plates on anything 25 years old or older. He put them on his newest car.

I saw Antique Plates on a guy's 1999 F-150 the other day. It caught me off guard and then I remembered you can run them in Illinois on ANY vehicle 25 years old and older

Man am I getting old, or what! For all of Illinois' faults so far they have been very good to the antique and classic car hobby folks!

[tubman]

Originally Posted by BlueSunoco

I saw Antique Plates on a guy's 1999 F-150 the other day. It caught me off guard and then I remembered you can run them in Illinois on ANY vehicle 25 years old and older

Man am I getting old, or what! For all of Illinois' faults so far they have been very good to the antique and classic car hobby folks!

The only thing keeping me from running antique plates on my 1999 F-150 is that I need one vehicle with regular plates in Minnesota.

[1942deluxe]

Originally Posted by tubman

The only thing keeping me from running antique plates on my 1999 F-150 is that I need one vehicle with regular plates in Minnesota.

Pennsylvania has gotten stricter on antique plates. They want pictures before they'll issue plates. What they don't want is people using antique plates to keep a vehicle on the road that is unsafe and can't pass state inspection.

[BlueSunoco]

Originally Posted by 19Fordy

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As has been mentioned in other comments in other threads about the future of our hobby, auctions show the price of early Fords is dropping.
Younger folks want muscle cars and old cars with modern technology and drivability at highway speeds.

Yeah kinda-sorta. Old Cars had a good report a while back concerning the muscle car era. They said Mustangs and Camaros have shown a bit of a drop in prices, but many were overpriced to begin with. Late 60's Mopars are up, simply because A. There weren't as many sold and B. They had very poor build quality and were trashed early in their life span.

The report said also the trend today is, full sized Ford-Chevy-Pontiac sedans and convertibles. They are really being sought after. 5 years ago nobody paid any attention to them. Today they get body off frame restorations, but parts are hard to source at least for the Fords and Pontiacs.

Like the early Ford Broncos, they are insane money today, they got real popular for what ever reason.

One last thing. No car built today is expected to be a future 'collector' car outside of the Ford GT series. With the computers and such, software glitches and demons, you can't buy a 2025 you-name-it put it away and expect it to be 'driveable in 12-15 years . Too much plastic. Too many wanky computer/sensor nonsense parts that the mfg. all have said they have NO plans to support that.


I think the pre-computer age cars say pre-1995 stuff will always have a following