problem solved. 👍

Lol

 

Yeah! Not such a good idea when it's your own money, huh?

Affordable = more fun everybody.

The words "go up in value" causes people confusion like it's something they want. Use the words "go up in cost" and suddenly it's a whole different conversation. And everybody is more wealthy when things are affordable.

 

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I don't think you got my point bud.. I'm not necessarily saying our cars should be worth crazy money or someone should pay outrageous numbers, sure maybe down the road it may come a point but not as long as the thirdgen community bashes the cars more than the generalpublic. I'm talking about the respect or lack of that a lot of folks here give thirdgens in general.

example if the car doesn't come with a 350, 305tpi, 5 spd etc it's "crap" "not worth anything".

Yet you have the fox guys(I own two myself)and these old school jdm fans going crazy over a grocery getters with 89hp. Or a clean body 4 cylinder fox. We need to appreciate our cars more instead of always bashing them. You even see the old baby boomrs giving v6 pony cars and chevelles respect nowadays.

 

It's a lot about condition. The threads I see where people are getting that kind of feedback is because the car is in poor condition. If the car has good bones then it might be interesting to a builder that can make it what they want, but it is not interesting to a turn-key buyer that wants to hand over cash and be instantly transformed into Joe Cool. And keep in mind a sub-$10K car today probably doubled in value from a few years ago, so percentage wise it has risen quite a lot.

3rd gens are from an era where performance cars are a sticker package and a few extra buttons on the dash. Later in the generation there actually were some trim levels released that had legit higher performance with much tighter suspensions, better tires, and faster. Those are the cars that people are clamoring over and that is driving up the values on those particular cars.

As for the other varieties of 3rd gens, the price kind of comes down to condition, people's emotions, and how far up the Joe Cool scale a turn-key buyer can get with one purchase. Some people will pay a lot of money for a car with the Joe Cool factor cranked up high.