The West Chevrolet White ZL1 #53 was sold and built as a Phase 3 car and before it was finished, the customer couldn't come up with the money, and backed out. It was finished as a Phase 3 for Steve Wests own collection. He then sent his Silver #54 ZL1 here to get a Phase 3 done to it after driving the white one. He now has two in his collection, but told me that he would sell either one and keep the other one.
As for the future or immediate investment for these cars, it is hard to say. If collectors and performance minded people are out there looking for a 4th gen Camaro to put away, I think our cars among others are going to be in demand. It seems that the Phase 2 cars were in big demand to either buy from the dealers new, or second hand from the customers (we have built about 80 Phase 2 cars to date (6 in the past month) and 535 Camaros and Firebirds overall since 2000). Recently it seems that the Phase 3 option has been the big request and so far in the last year we have built 50 Phase 3 cars. 42 ZL1's and 8 more either HotRod cars, Berger SS cars, or 35th Anniversary Performance Edition cars. As most of you know, we only work on cars we have built for the dealers, and not street cars . . . sorry. So if you own a GMMG car (
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I don't like comparing our cars to the Bergers, Yenkos, Nickeys, Motion, etc, cars of the 60's, but I think you can compare the way people are ordering the GMMG cars of today to the way they collect those cars, in that people want more options and or whatever is available on them. Phase 3 with the roll cage, etc. seems to be the latest interests. It is hard to build cars today that will sell at retail at the dealership level and then sell even higher after the owner purchases it and then decides to sell it. Knowing a bit about the 60's and 70's high performance Chevys and what makes them collectible is the formula we have used here. Ad the Chevy involvement, and the Dealer involvement and the Engine upgrade packages and the fact that the Camaro and Firebird are gone (for a while I hope), all these have aided in the collectibility of our cars. I also think you can look at the packages we put out and see that the GMMG cars try to hit on every aspect, not just performance or appearance, but both and then some. It helps when you have GM supporting you, and helping out, and the dealerships supporting these cars and helping out. A lot of the success of these cars has to do with timing, but I also believed that people would buy a modern day dealer muscle car if it was done to the formula of the 60's, and so far we are all having fun.
Everyone has asked us where do we go from here . . . well, we aren't going to Disney World just yet . . . We have a few projects that we will be doing this year that will have most gearheads and collectors rearranging their finances . . . Stay alert as we will be releasing some news soon . . .
