Somehow it feels like 20 or 25 years ago again
Anyone who has been buying and selling classic cars for as long as I have (as a hobby, nota bene) can remember times when the idea of earning money with an old car was completely irrelevant. It was simply about buying and driving an interesting vehicle. If you wanted to sell it again after a few years, you reckoned with a loss in value. And the fact that maintenance and restoration costs were "a fonds perdu", i.e. usually irrevocably lost, seemed normal. An engine overhaul, repainting or similar was part of the maintenance, and there were increases in value at most for a few exotic cars.
However, cars were much cheaper back then than they are today; an Aston Martin DB4 or a Ferrari Daytona could have been bought for a five-figure sum, a Fiat Dino Spider didn't cost much more than a new, fast VW Golf.
Of course, it's not quite like that today, but the prices of classic cars are under pressure and the seller's market has turned into a buyer's market. This can be seen in the latest auction results and in the longer waiting times of the cars at the dealers.
What is annoying for sellers opens up new opportunities for buyers. In the latest survey by Zwischengas , you can see that there is a fairly large segment of potential buyers who would be quite willing to buy if the right opportunity presented itself ...
