If time travel were possible ....
10/04/2013
... then as a classic car collector you would certainly like to travel back in time to buy an unloved car here and there and then put it in a safe shed so that you could roll it out again many years later as a barn find.
For example, if we look at an issue of Road & Track from 1973, and that was only 40 years ago, various attractive vehicles catch our eye. In Miami Lakes, a dealer is selling three original Ford GT40 Mk IVs and a Mk IIB (no price given, but certainly cheap), in Los Angeles there is a Ferrari 375 America Convertible (0353AL) for sale, a 300 SLthat looked like new according to the advertisement text, cost USD 8,500 (that was about CHF 26,000 or 22,000 euros at the time), a Mercedes Benz 300S Coupé from 1956 was available for USD 5,000, and exotic cars such as a Marcos 2000 from 1965 (USD 3,250) or a Horch 830 BI from 1938 (USD 12,000) could also be found.
The Ferrari collector could choose between 330 GTC, 250 GT Berlinetta, 275 GTB/4, 500 Superfast, 330 GT 2+2, 250 GT Superamerica, 330 GTS and 365 GT 2+2, with prices all in the region of less than CHF 50,000 or Euro 40,000.
But that was a lot more money back then and time travel hasn't been invented yet. In addition, of course, a time paradox would arise, because the classic would have to disappear from some garage if the course had been set backwards in time ...
