<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rich_86 @ Feb 5 2008, 02:11 PM) </div>
exactly, i would agree with you on that one, which is a shame, seeing as it will be even more impossible to find a mint one in a few years.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (4AGE - 86 @ Feb 5 2008, 05:03 PM) </div>
exactly, i would agree with you on that one, which is a shame, seeing as it will be even more impossible to find a mint one in a few years.
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which is why my next investment is buying a clean as, complete stocker jdm and keeping it in my garage for a few years.
do you seriously believe that anyone is going to be able to drive one in another 20 years,or even still care about them?
will there be fuel? will you be allowed to register one? will you be able to afford it even if the previous four answers are yes?
I doubt we'll even have internal combustion engines in cars in another twenty years time. the way emissions laws and other vehicle regulations (as well as the various social pressures) are heading it's not looking positive for the humble club-level sports car enthusiast and his old,dirty,manual everything twin-cam-petrol-burning-car.
worrying about finding a clean AE86 in 2028 will be the least of your concerns.
besides what I've posted above,finding work,finding clean drinking water,keeping a roof over your and your family's heads,and not being killed by the have-nots when you step out your front door will be a little closer to mind than where you can get original door trims and boot carpet for an '83 model levin I think.
and besides all of that,not everyone who guts their car throws the parts away. my car is as gutted as it can be and still be eligible for road rego. I still have all the boot plastics,roof lining and so on in boxes in my garage,which is where they're staying. who knows,I may even decide to put 80kg back into the car and make it slower one day...maybe when the shooting starts to affect my hearing and I for some unfathomable reason,want to stop driving my 2000 model wagon everyday and make my weekend toy into a daily.
Justin...
chassi flex, wot evs kent.
(didnt read the whole thing coz removing sound dedoning is up to the person that drives the car,
as for the 20 yrs time thing that no one will care (fergo308)...wats ur wager on that good sir???? so thats also to say that the first kcp20 i think (with the L26 its been too long since i looked at details of them) is going to be worth nothing cause we will all be driving hybrids or electro cars???? doubt it fair enough most shit boxes lancers, camrys, civics, usual shit like that will not be worth anythin in 20yrs time...but a mint late model jdm hachi with fk all kms, no rust and straighter then wen if left the factory should be worth alot more due to there heritage and cult following...more example a guy i know on the sunny coast used to race in group a a mz70 supra....sold it a while back for 10k i think now its the only one left in the whole world with group A papers any ideas how much it is worth the new over got offered $220,000 late 06 for it.....so to say that cars are jus going to become worth nothing is ignorant to say...well maybe the real rough hachis will be worth very little but clean jdm stockers with low mileage...fk loads....adm's might also go up not too sure bout that thou...also this year the 1983 model hachi become classified as government listed classics so I'm sure the price on those will start to strangely increase as well....and if the forums become a registered club...thus cheap rego (on the basis you don't drive it everyday and what not i think are some of the cheap rego conditions)
of course they'll still be worth something - to collectors. the same way idiots fawn over XR GT falcons and people spend all weekend polishing and detailing an A40 to go in a concourse. I wasn't talking about that sort of thing,or re-sale values.
will you be driving one,and will other people who are on this forum now give a shit in 2028? for that,I'll wager NOT. hell,I doubt I'll even have one,and there's a 50/50 chance that I may not even be alive by then.
I love older cars as much as the next guy,but I'm also realist enough to understand that nothing lasts forever. especially with the way the world looks like it's heading.
Justin...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rich_86 @ Feb 5 2008, 09:40 PM) </div> how old do our cars have to get to become classics?
"New evidence found: Hoon driver linked to 9/11."
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Untrue as well. Got the guy at the factory who produces lexan/perspex to show me a demonstration of destroying both types (As I had the suspicion that perspex would also splinter awhile go). They break exactly the same, perspex is not going to 'splinter' nor 'shatter'. The only merits there are on lexan is that they don't scratch as easy.
But really, if you were to use lexan or perspex on a car at all, it's obviously for track use only. So I don't see when it would get scratched anyway. Reason for myself choosing perspex because it's lighter, even though it's not lighter by much. May as well.
Incase some of you are confused, Lexan is just a brand name for the actual material Polycarbonate, and Perspex for Acrylic.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (drft86 @ Feb 4 2008, 09:07 PM) </div>
I tell ya what news travels fast, took this picture on the highway today, it would seem that one very smart ford driver is on the ball
grant your picture no work
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