Cascade Crew

[dlp]

Just for S&G I searched Auto trader for third gens for sale for 1k miles. WOW

My wife keeps saying dump the 1990 vert for what we payed for it. I could not find a decent IROC vert for less than 9500.00. We paid 4k for hers. Her perception was " we could make 4K on it" mine was cool, glad we have one!

Anyone else think that third gens will be sought after like 1st gens the next time the collector car rage hits?

[Dewey316]

It comes down to how many of them get "high-schooled" (no offense to theh younger crowd). There were millions of these cars made, but they are the cheap V8 car the kids can afford. If enough of them wreck them, then the number of nice ones go down. I think that the thirdgens are going to prove to be more collectable than the late 2nd gens, or the LT1 cars. Only time will tell though.

The number of them turning to dust now, in the rust belt, will also help prices go up.

--John

[iansane]

I can only hope the value goes up. That way, if I hit any more deer I won't have to worry as much about getting totaled out.

[Red Bird]

Thirdgens are getting harder to find in the boneyards where i live i central WA. I see a ton of runners around, but they are all mostly clapped out, neglected cars that need somone to put them out of their motoring misery. which is good for us who intend to keep their cars for many more years. I think the limited production vehicles are definitley getting more expensive. but then again, a lot of people with clean modified thirdgens wind up parting out their cars, cuz they can not get as much selling the whole car.

[fiveoformula]

both redbird and dewey... what john says about high-schoolers is oh so true, most of them at my school are mostly into imports but still, i cant stand the kid who fires up his car in the parking lot, gives it a few 3-4K revs and then procedes to do a burnout out of the parking lot, all on a cold engine

And he's the reason my insurance is so high...

[cameron7710]

[fiveoformula]

yea me to, i just graduated but im old for my age

[iansane]

[Dewey316]

most of us are guilty of beating on them, that is different that abusing them without sense, or the ability to fix what we break. I was saying that typicaly the young male demographic, writes off more sporty type cars, than any other group of people.

-- John "I drive it like I stole it" Dewey.

[cameron7710]

[fiveoformula]

you gotta have fun with em, thats what there for!
but things like what listed above... er neutral drops, abuse stuff... a friend of mine loves to smash on his '96 3.8 camaro, from the moment he turns the key to when he stops.
that thing has the clacky-est valve train i ever heard!

[QwkTrip]

Well, since you're asking for opinions....

Third gens are old enough that they already hit rock bottom in price. The value will track with inflation now. Thirdgens and Mustang 5.0 began the muscle car revival but are nowhere near the pinnacle of performance. We'll have to hand that honor to the late model entries. There won't be a surge in value of 3rd gens unless the people that grew up driving them get nostalgic and decide to relive their younger years. And that's not going to happen any time soon. Those people are between 35 and 45 years old now and can afford much better cars and enjoying every minute of it.

Third gens are owned primarily by people that can't afford much better but do have enough expendable income to customize an inexpensive car. In order for prices to soar you would need people with a lot of expendable cash to want them for show circuit or custom rods.

[dlp]

[batcave]

nada values on third gen camaros and firebirds has finally gone up

[Quasi-Traction]

I know its been said before by someone on here but my $.02 is basically this:

I really don't care what the buyers market says my car is worth. I know what it's worth to me. I also know that I intend to hang onto it and continue to modify and improve it in the way it personally suits my desires.

I was saying to someone the other day, that pretty much I think the 3rd gens have a spesific niche market. I don't forsee that changing drastically anytime soon, and especally so with everyone up in a panic about how much were paying at the pump now and potentially how much we could be paying in the future.

[cameron7710]

[QwkTrip]

Niche market??? These cars are passed around like fast women and there is one sitting in front of every 3rd house in the low rent district.

[Dewey316]

You've been to my neighborhood ?!?!?

I keed, I keed.

You see it where it is, because there were SO many of them built, and they are cheap now. The kid who wants a V8 "muscle car" can still afford our cars because there are enough of them around.

[QwkTrip]

Exactly.

[Dewey316]