my thoughts
I agree with what most have said on the debate...and I will add that I can stuff, just barely, my 2 boys in the back seat. Of coarse they will have to crawl through the roll cage like monkey bars at the park, but hey they are only 5 and 3 and they would enjoy the adventure.
Will a Viper depreciate, yes. How about a Camaro, I think so too. Pro-touring style early iron is really hot right now. Kind of like Pro-street in the 80's. Cars that were selling at the peak of that movement brought money that was unheard of at the time. Fast forward till now...you can get a deal on a pro-street car and the pro-tour style is out of sight. Will history repeat itself? Only time will tell. Barret-Jackson has really pushed the value of classics, in general, up pretty high. I realize the cars that they sell are exceptional, but every Joe Blow with a (insert your classic here) thinks his car is worth the $200,000 the car brought on TV. Is there a bubble on values like Corvettes in the early 80's? Is it going to pop?
Obviously I am not building my car as an investment, but I would not want to spend $50,000 modifying a Yugo either. So you are wondering why I have rambled for so long and posed the question. My wife will be 40 in 4.5 years and yes I know that I robbed the cradle. Her favorite car is a Viper so I started looking just to see for maybe a 40th birthday gift...one of the old depreciated ones. Anyway I got to thinking, I am building my car way nicer than I had planned. Would I have been better served to have built more of a track day car that I could drive on the street? One more suited to abuse than a polishing cloth? I really won;t know the answer to that question until it is done. However, it did get me thinking. Sell the one I have when completed...after enjoying the car. Buy my wife a mid-life crisis car and start my next 69 camaro project. I have an insured that has a real nice 69 driver with a 327/power glide that would make a nice track car or there is the guy that lives around the corner that has a numbers matching 69 big block SS/RS 4 speed car that has not seen the light of day in 15 years.
Oh the options. It makes my head hurt.
Truth be known...they will probably burry me in the car.
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