From used to collector's vehicle
04/23/2016
At some point, interesting cars make the leap from utility to collector's vehicle. This is usually accompanied by a change in the way the car is used, as the collector's car is usually spared daily use in everyday traffic. The collector's car is spared, pampered, cared for and saved for special occasions.
Now it may well be that a certain type of car is still a used car for one owner and already a collector's car for another. And there are cars that practically never experience the used vehicle phase at all, so to speak. Examples of this are often the evolutionary models from manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz or Ferrari, because who would use a Ferrari Enzo in everyday life?
The bread and butter cars have a much harder time of it, they are hardly ever spared everyday use.
Our picture for this blog shows two cars, both of which are already old and sprightly youngtimers respectively. While the Peugeot 205 GTI is just at the end of the used and transition to the collector's vehicle phase, the VW Golf GTI Mk 1 has now clearly become a collector's vehicle, in this case it has already been completely restored and now delights the driver with its almost new car-like condition.
In this respect, he was lucky, because many bread and butter cars end up on the scrap heap at the end of their service life, which makes the remaining examples all the rarer (but not always significantly more valuable).
Sporty hatchback cars, however, are likely to have a good career ahead of them as collectors' vehicles, as their former owners often dream of treating themselves to another one when they reach a ripe old age ...
