The classic cars we buy ...
04/06/2015
There are a whole range of reasons to buy a particular classic or modern classic car. Some people want to buy the car they would have liked to have had in their youth. Others aspire to the car that their father might have owned and on whose back seat they went on vacation, and still others have discovered their dream car in a movie.
This all sounds logical, but it hardly explains why someone today buys a Detroit Electric from the 1920s or an exotic plastic car that was created in homeopathic doses 50 or more years ago.
Perhaps the more interesting question, however, is whether anyone will want to buy or collect today's cars as classic and collector's vehicles in 30 years' time.
But why not, perhaps a first-generation Tesla will then be a sought-after classic, an Audi TT a lovingly maintained rarity and a BMW i8 the dream car of classic car drivers of the future. This is certainly not impossible.
But what does this mean for the Porsche 356, Triumph TR4 or Alfa Romeo Spider, which are popular collectors' cars today? Will interest in them dwindle, just as pre-war cars have to fight for their fans today?
And will today's young people even want to buy old cars in thirty years' time or will they be looking for a vintage iPhone or a well-preserved Playstation 2 or 3?
We don't know the answers to these questions either, but we will be keeping a close eye on developments ...
