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Powershift posted:terminal case of boomerbrains "Maybe I'm wrong about how much this rusty pile is worth. No, it is everyone else that is wrong!" I mean, selling something on Craigslist is a nightmare, but...don't use Craigslist then? Ebay Motors, online forums, etc. Although, the sort of guy that'd scrap a $4000 investment out of spite is also probably the sort of guy who would try one thing then get pissy when it doesn't work the way he wants it to. I'd sort of understand maybe if it was a car he owned for awhile and wanted to get value out of the sentiment he had for it - stupid but understandable - but a flipper buying something to crush it is just  I keep seeing articles about how the classic car market is going to crash, don't know how true that is but I wouldn't be surprised to see more poo poo like this.
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Oct 31, 2019 18:40
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boxen posted:
I think it will eventually when there's fewer people to buy said cars or gives a poo poo about classic cars. When millennials have no interest or money, it's a matter of time before the bottom will fall out.
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Oct 31, 2019 20:09
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Joe Mama posted:I've seen Maaco paint jobs like this a dozen times. Even if the paint turned out decent there is ALWAYS overspray somewhere where you're just like, "How, why? Was the guy retarded?" No, just painted too many cars without safety gear. So, actually, yes, sort of. Applebees Appetizer posted:1970 Dodge Charger destroyed by man sick of lowballers — he showed them! Spite car? Spite crush? Suburban Dad posted:I think it will eventually when there's fewer people to buy said cars or gives a poo poo about classic cars. When millennials have no interest or money, it's a matter of time before the bottom will fall out. This. Basically after all the Boomers and some of my (I'm 50) generation die off.
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Oct 31, 2019 20:31
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I think the population is rising and there's people in other countries who care about classic american cars so I think some of them will retain their value even as the number of people as a percentage of the population that cares about cars shrinks, because the absolute number will still go up. Also while the bulk of millenials won't be rich people, there's no sign that the world or the country is going to run out of rich people. There might be fewer rich people but they'll be even richer than before so they'll need more things to collect with their bigger piles of cash. It's not even just the nostalgia factor. There's still people collecting model A fords and old horse drawn buggies even though almost everyone who bought one new is dead by now.
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Oct 31, 2019 21:04
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Leperflesh posted:I think the population is rising and there's people in other countries who care about classic american cars so I think some of them will retain their value even as the number of people as a percentage of the population that cares about cars shrinks, because the absolute number will still go up. Also while the bulk of millenials won't be rich people, there's no sign that the world or the country is going to run out of rich people. There might be fewer rich people but they'll be even richer than before so they'll need more things to collect with their bigger piles of cash. Yeah, one chinese movie about old american muscle cars and they could completely clean the market out. China is currently the largest market in the world for red wine, consuming, on average, 1 bottle per year per person.
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Oct 31, 2019 21:33
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Leperflesh posted:I think the population is rising and there's people in other countries who care about classic american cars so I think some of them will retain their value even as the number of people as a percentage of the population that cares about cars shrinks, because the absolute number will still go up. Also while the bulk of millenials won't be rich people, there's no sign that the world or the country is going to run out of rich people. There might be fewer rich people but they'll be even richer than before so they'll need more things to collect with their bigger piles of cash. Yeah but what is the market going to look like when it "corrects" when nostalgia is dead? Nobody is claiming that classic cars will die, just that the market as it exists now will.
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Oct 31, 2019 21:54
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The market will certainly change, as all markets inevitably do: this is why there is always risk in investing. Well, one of the reasons. I'm just asserting that "millenial Americans don't care about old cars" is not a compelling argument to lead to "and therefore they'll lose their value."
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Oct 31, 2019 21:56
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KakerMix posted:Yeah but what is the market going to look like when it "corrects" when nostalgia is dead? Nobody is claiming that classic cars will die, just that the market as it exists now will. Nostalgia never dies, the target just changes. 30 years from now some millennial will pay $10M for a mint 1st generation iPhone.
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Oct 31, 2019 22:02
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Not all collecting is based on nostalgia, and not all nostalgia is based on one's contemporary cultural touchstones from childhood. Those are important factors but not the only one. If they were, then once any particular kind of collectible was 100 years old, it'd stop being valuable, as a rule. And yet, people have collections of medieval armor, stone age arrowheads, and 18th century snuff boxes.
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Oct 31, 2019 22:11
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Deteriorata posted:Nostalgia never dies, the target just changes. 30 years from now some millennial will pay $10M for a mint 1st generation iPhone. A sealed original iPod sold for a couple grand last year so you're probably right.
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Nov 1, 2019 06:27
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My point was that the muscle car market is already cooling, mostly because the nostalgia has moved on. Now the growing market is 80s and 90s Japanese stuff, because the nostalgia is there. Technically "classic" cars can already be into the 90s but it seems that when people say "classic" they mean the 60s-70s stuff.
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Nov 1, 2019 08:18
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Yeah I'd love to pick up a nice Integra again some day because that was my first car. Fat chance of that happening though, morons like my younger self ruined them all.
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Nov 1, 2019 08:35
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dissss posted:Yeah I'd love to pick up a nice Integra again some day because that was my first car. Fat chance of that happening though, morons like my younger self ruined them all. Mine (DA B18 coupe) lasted until late last year (it was rear ended). RIP. I miss it.
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Nov 1, 2019 14:35
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dissss posted:Yeah I'd love to pick up a nice Integra again some day because that was my first car. Fat chance of that happening though, morons like my younger self ruined them all. I want an unmolested CRX but that's like finding a loving unicorn.
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Nov 1, 2019 15:38
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Man, that would mean to find two unicorns in the same place and at the same time loving. That would be rare.
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Nov 1, 2019 15:40
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C-Bangin' it 
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My friend in youth group had one back in the late '00s, only automatic CRX I know of. Not sure if it was a swap or what.
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Nov 1, 2019 16:56
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There were automatic CRX’s available. Few survived.
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Nov 1, 2019 19:01
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I see clean looking (from the outside) CRXs somewhat regularly. Like maybe a half dozen times a year. Speaking of clean as gently caress, A week or so ago, I saw the cleanest loving Aerostar I've ever seen. It wasn't cosmetically perfect, but it was cleaner than any one that I ever remember seeing, even when they were still in production. It was so old, it didn't have the third brake light. Fake edit: Ok, third brake light was added in 1994, so still old, but not old AF.
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Nov 1, 2019 19:56
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Really? I thought 3rd brakelights were something like 86-87?
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Nov 1, 2019 19:57
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Aerostar wikipedia page: . As it was becoming a federal requirement, a center brake light was added for 1994 E: I'm in Canada though, maybe it was required before that here? I'd swear my parent's 1990 Topaz had a third light.
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Nov 1, 2019 20:08
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slidebite posted:Really? I thought 3rd brakelights were something like 86-87? My ‘87 Corolla has one, and FC RX-7s (‘86-91 in the US) do as well. But I don’t know if that was preemptive or what.
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Nov 1, 2019 20:14
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slidebite posted:Really? I thought 3rd brakelights were something like 86-87? quote:The third brake light law went into effect in 1986 for passenger cars, and light trucks in 1994.
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Nov 1, 2019 20:15
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 https://nh.craigslist.org/ctd/d/south-walpole-2005-porsche-kit-car/7006801660.html
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Nov 1, 2019 20:55
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The worst thing about these kits is that the stock Fiero actually looked pretty cool. There's one occasionally parked on the street nearby and I'd totally drive it.
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Nov 1, 2019 21:18
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There are three parked in front of a Napa on the edge of town, for sale as a package deal. The owner refuses to split up the lot.
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Nov 1, 2019 21:24
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Hey, if anyone has about $1500 I have a sorta-reliable Fiero. It's three different colors! Four if you count the black trim.
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Nov 1, 2019 21:54
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What is it about the Fiero that seems to make them spin or dart off in some random direction rather than track where it was pointed? I've never driven one just seen the old MotorWeek videos of them spinning out a million times.
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Nov 1, 2019 22:08
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Rhyno posted:There are three parked in front of a Napa on the edge of town, for sale as a package deal. The owner refuses to split up the lot. Heh, always cracks me up seeing them on the sidewalk.
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Nov 1, 2019 22:12
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i own every Bionicle posted:
Ironically, a nice fiero is almost certainly now worth more than a mediocre boxster.
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Nov 2, 2019 01:00
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KakerMix posted:My point was that the muscle car market is already cooling, mostly because the nostalgia has moved on. Now the growing market is 80s and 90s Japanese stuff, because the nostalgia is there. I've seen a 93 Supra and a jelly bean Escort with classic tags in recent months. Edit: ZX2!
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Nov 2, 2019 04:10
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Godholio posted:I've seen a 93 Supra and a jelly bean Escort with classic tags in recent months. My wife's car when we met was a dark forest green ZX2 and BOY did she beat the everliving poo poo out of that poor car. Weirdly enough my neighbor, in his 60s with an exposed metal Beetle and a split window Stingray, just bought one. We went over there and it was just in his backyard, my wife started freaking out getting all excited. You bet your rear end people are going to be doing the same thing over H2s in another decade.
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Nov 2, 2019 04:53
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What's the best way to automate craigslist searches these days?
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Nov 5, 2019 03:18
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Searchtempest.com will let you search all of the Craiglist's in the US. However to automate a craigslist search the closest I've seen for that is smart phone apps that claim they can do it. However they come with gotchas you have to be aware of and they don't often advertise. I bought CplusforCraigslist for my phone and it says "Search alert is an experimental feature. You can have at most 2 alerts (each checked location is counted as one alert)." So you can't search a wide area have it running in the background and once I ran into this I couldn't find a single review that mentioned this limitation.
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Nov 5, 2019 14:38
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My A-body white whale: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/420568915518483/  
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Nov 5, 2019 19:12
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Scammers must hate when they are fended off by stern warnings of NO SCAMMERS
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Nov 6, 2019 01:53
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The one trick scammers don't want you to know!Dagen H posted:My A-body white whale:
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Nov 6, 2019 02:00
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slidebite posted:Once again relatively rare /= valuable. Did you see the Omni GLHS I posted on FB? 31.9K 
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Nov 6, 2019 02:24
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i think that ciera is worth four grand, fight me
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Nov 6, 2019 13:14
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:i think that ciera is worth four grand, fight me Nah, you can have it
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