So my car is a classic next year?

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Old Apr 3, 2009 | 08:22 AM
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Old Apr 3, 2009 | 08:26 AM
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Old Apr 9, 2009 | 09:56 AM
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I believe when I'm forty or fifty (I'm 21 now) these cars will be the ones that get restored, just like how the 1st gen is now. Just my opinion. I know I'll be building on one when I retire and have nothing else to do.
 
Old Apr 9, 2009 | 10:01 AM
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I really don't think that'll happen, there may be a few people around that will restore them, but I don't the masses taking it on as with the 1st gens now.
 
Old Apr 9, 2009 | 11:11 AM
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i don't know arrow...when you think about it...what else are people going to be restoring? restoration of cars won't die and eventually there won't be enough cars from the 50's, 60's and 70's for everyone to have...so eventually these cars will be getting restored as well...just my own opinion
 
Old Apr 9, 2009 | 11:37 AM
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I can see your point wham, but I just don't think these cars are going to be worth as much as the 1st were and are and therefore the interest in restoreing them won't be there. I mean they pretty much are throw away cars in todays society except to those of us that have them.
 
Old Apr 9, 2009 | 12:47 PM
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so what will be restored later on? not everyone can have vipers and vettes...that would get lame
 
Old Apr 9, 2009 | 12:58 PM
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I don't know that man, I just think that the era has gone and these newer cars just don't and won't have the nostalgia that the 1st and 2nd gen's do. I love all camaro's, but if I had the money I wouldn't restore a 3rd or 4th gen. I can see that these cars will always be around, but I don't them being brought out of junk yards to be restored. I can see people keeping them going as far as they can until it would need to much work (a restore).
 
Old Apr 9, 2009 | 02:09 PM
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People thought the same way about cars in the 50s and 60s greenarrow. Any car in 50 years from now will inevitably be a classic. Think about it, your average family clunker from the 50s would be considered a classic now, even cars that weren't so special back then.

There's no reason why in the decades to come our 3rd and 4th gens won't become rare, unique, and classic just as the 1st and 2nd gens have become. They're only throw away cars now (to some people anyway) because they're too new and there's too many of them.
 
Old Apr 9, 2009 | 02:24 PM
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Maybe so, I just think that the 1st/2nd gens where built better and with better materials. I don't think these cars will have the following the first gen do now.

I really hope I'm wrong, but with the way younger people are these days, I don't see them appreciating these cars.
 



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