Honda Prelude 5th Gen

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:42 pm

Do I think they will go up in value? Yes, down to supply and demand.

Will they ever be deemed classics? It's impossible to say, it's all down to market forces -
Look at it this way, say in the next 5 years everything goes hybrid, electric, hydrogen powered, whatever. Pretty much any car from what was definitely a golden era for Japanese performance cars, the 90's, will go up in value, because they will represent something. Whether that's the last great affordable, decent powered combustion engined cars, or something else, who knows.
Another example. I'm a big fan of what is called retro stuff, not because it's retro, to me, a lot of it is just fro my childhood

but because a lot of it has character. I was born in the late 70's, but I tend to wear 60's watches, I love a manual or auto movement over a quartz any day because it has craftsmanship. I know what it takes to create something like that because my dad is a watchmaker, so I grew up with it.
As items, like watches, become more and more mass produced and cheaper, they generally lose quality and IMO character, so in order to go forwards you have to go backwards....
I used to pick up 60's watches for £10-£15 here and there, now, a fairly common one such as an Avia can be £150 if it's tidy, because people have realised that that time has gone - to get something of that quality of craftsmanship now is going to have a shiny badge on it and be about 1-2k at least. What was a common watch in it's day is no longer common and has an added value.
I had a '68 mustang. What many don't realise is it was a cheap car when it was built, it was America's escort really

Or Capri if you'd rather. I bought mine for 10k, sold it 18 months later for 15k and it would now cost me 25k to buy back.....

It happens with everything, cars, watches, guitars..........

Mattbigwood · Post by **Mattbigwood** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:52 pm

Regarding the Ford Capri, I had a 2.0 litre in the early 90s and could barely give it away when I bought another car - now they go for silly money. I suppose a lot of it is down to the fact that people of a certain age have the money to buy those cars to recapture their youth.

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:57 pm

Exactly. The 90's was a golden era for mountain bikes too, I still ride mine because I always have, now people spend a fortune building up the bikes they couldn't afford when they were kids, out of NOS parts and hang them on their wall as 'garage queens'

Also, I know of a chap that has a genuine Shelby GT500 Mustang. He bought it for next to nothing years ago. Now, it's worth more than his house.

Kristoffer · Post by **Kristoffer** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:14 pm

Rudelude · Post by **Rudelude** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 8:29 pm

Mattbigwood wrote:suppose a lot of it is down to the fact that people of a certain age have the money to buy those cars to recapture their youth.

Agree with Matt, And sometimes you want to buy a car that you always admired but couldn't afford when new.

Btw, my cousin is gonna go look at that lude and all being well, will offer £4k... But I think he wants it..so will stretch up.
It's a car he owned about 10 years ago. He loved it and wants another. Nostalgia maybe. He has the new rs4, panamera and a 991c4s. But the lude captured his heart

Kristoffer · Post by **Kristoffer** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 9:08 am