Mecum Auction COPOs everywhere

[Xplantdad]

Good one Sam!

[JRSully]

The older brothers line up at my house when I was about 12-13;
68 400 firebird 4spd
66 421 tripower catalina ( given to my older brothers for free)
68 428 Mustang
70 428 Cougar

and my Dad telling me how he had to change an engine in a 40 Ford Convertible around 1954, did it in an hour using a couple of chains and the oak tree in our front yard. car ran great, loaded up 4 of his friends, drove to Nebraska from Long Island for the helluva it, oh yea, the covertible had no top, just the frame, nobody cared... That did it for me SULLY

[Hotrodpaul]

As far as great value in terms of Camaro's, you cannot go wrong with the 98-02 LS1 cars. Huge performance per dollar, good looks and mileage. The 99 model shown below ran mid thirteen's stock, presently high 11's @ 116 mph with mild mods and still knocks down 20 mpg in combined city/highway driving, and the car is worth about $8-$9K in its present condition.



My other two Camaro's are pretty far back in terms of performance, handling, braking, and mileage. But what appeals to me are the way they make me feel. The rough idle, unburned exhaust fumes, styling, rarity, ease of working on, and so so ride and handling appeal to me because it brings me back to my youth. Driving these cars and the reaction I get brings me back to my 20's when they were commonplace and no one cared if they had the proper date coded block or transmission. All you wanted to do was go fast and look cool doing it. Now, there is a desire inside of me that wants to restore and preserve these cars so that future generations can experience the fun that these cars bring. And for that, people are willing to pay top dollar for these cars now.

Paul

[Salvatore]

Dollars to donuts most kids my kids age will take your 11 second camaro for 10,000.

[Tim Penton]

Hey Sam, I know the less "traveled" paths to take! Besides I never write tickets for loud pipes. In Louisiana we have a "Loud Pipes Save Lives" program.

[Schonyenko2]

Somebody wake up Belair. We need a little "Willie the wimp, and his cadillac coffin", by Stevie Ray. Mine's all goin with me.
And yes Sam. It's nice to have your own in house painter. To bad he'll have to wait until I'm gone to claim to be the best.
Nice to see you post Mr. Shockly. Always good to visit with you. Hope you're doing well.

[Salvatore]

You are a funny man! I like the loud pipes philosophy.

[70CitrusZ]

my.02
1) Most prices are balooned way out of proportion right now.
2) The regular enthusiast people who own these cars for anything other than an investment wouldn't or couldn't pay the dollars it takes to buy them right now, those enthusiast people are mostly currently "sellers or keepers".
3) Once the "investment interest" moves on to something else, and there is a new "status symbol" for the rich, prices will drop. Right now muscle cars are the flavor of the week.
4) Any substantial increase in interest rates and the prices will start to drop out of the muscle car movement.
5) The prices of clone cars is an indication how far out of reality the prices are right now. Who pays 100k for a car you can build for 35??
6) If you need a yardstick to measure this by, just look at what happened to the hot rod market. A car that a few years ago would top a couple hundred grand now stumbles to fetch 75k. True, the good cars maintain "a value" of some kind, but there isn't the "status quo" inflation on them that there was.
7)Muscle car prices in general will go down. its just a matter of time, I give it less than 5 years for the first drop to prices with both the most expensive cars, and the lowest valued cars taking the largest hits first.
Mark.

[P.J.]

well Let me tell you a story,
I have 4 daughets and the two oldest asked to go to the first school dance a few years back.So I told them they could go if I drive them with my 70 chevelle ss l78 4 speed.
Well they alost swallowed their tongue at the thought of them arriving at the parking lot dance in this old chevelle"
However they finaly reluctanly agreed. Friday night came they got all dooled up and I got the Chevelle ready to go.
The school was only a short distance away and I arrived at the parking lot in 1st gear (m22) to make all the noise The car could muster. Drove right up to the crowd and stopped.
All the Youg 13 year olds about 200 of them. boys imedialy left their girlfriends standing on the dance floor and ran towards the fire breathing Chevelle. As the ladies got out they were deluged with popularity and the boys were amazed that their dad drove such a car.
The next dance came along and they could not wait to have me take them again.
So much for the youg not loving the muscle cars.The only thing that concerns me is the price of such cars most of them will only be able to dream about owning one.

Peter

[PPPJJJFFF]

Interesting predictions. However. I'll wait to see what this market looks like (especially for Hemi-E bodies, Yenkos, Copos and some of the other rare Super Cars) after the new Challenger and Camaro are back for the next "muscle Car" bonanza! That will surely bring alot more buyers into this arena! Just my prediction.

Patrick