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If the high-finned Cadillac convertible to 50 years in the spinning of the auction record for players in Las Vegas in spring this year, Wayne Robie’s turned his head. Wayne, 40, Cadillac a fan of Minneapolis, had his heart on a white Biarritz 1957. But it was the tendering procedure, if the price has risen $ rest 34000th Someone else has nailed for $ 40,000. I was crushed”,”, remembers Wayne, is a consultant on fundraising, if not drooling over cars. ”The Biarritz is more or less than the Cadillac Cadillac, and it was exactly the kind I always wanted.

But a month later, he discovered a vergleichbare’57 Biarritz southern Minnesota to a used car dealer’s lot for only $ 22000. ”I paid twice what the Caddy was worth it when I bought in Las Vegas,”he says philosophical. Instead, he moved his purchase, until he learns more about Caddy market. Everyone is dit”ces cars are hot, he said, but I will”,”, Get Smart, take my time and buy only what is a good thing.”Welcome to the wonderful world ’s Automobile congregate, where prices rose by 5% per month on the most popular models for the past year. Since le”crash fellow, there was a Feeding Frenzy in cars,’’says Richard Roth, a collector longstanding Porsche race cars a little on the amateur vintage of the race. ”People do not know what to do with their money.”At the beginning of an auction of Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale, Arizona last January, for example, Top Cars was approximately 60% more than the year before, three beds their average annual profits for the last 15 years.

Gains have been even more dramatic for the best cars. Top Ferraris have tripled in three years, a Daytona Spyder, which cost $ 27000 in 1971 is again now for almost $ 800000th The 1959 Cadillac Biarritz sofa bed, a used car in the value of a charity 10 years, commands $ 75000th Even the modest VW Beetle Cabriolet can make $ 12000 these days. This award is powered in part the explosion of rich and middle-aged nostalgic for buyers of big cars of their youth and partly by foreign buyers, the most powerful currencies a price of U.S. goods. Luxury Cars, fans have also contributed: one day ago $ 60000 for a new import, many opt for a chromosaurus $ 30000 in 50 years. And this year, a car - Tucker - May amounted to 25% on Hollywood Hype with the release of Tucker: The Man and His Dream, a film about its creator. This is good news for the producer-exporter director George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. Between them, they own almost 6% of total Tucker never done - is only possible because Preston Tucker succeeded, only 51 vehicles his company stopped production in 1948. But the car market, experts warn, so that the money in the car is not so simple. While prices should continue to rise each year a few marks can be used for directing a wall. In a commentary that began its dominant mood, Don Williams, collectors and dealers in Danville, California, said:”I am concerned that some specific models, such as the Ferrari Daytona Spyder and the late 50 years, Cadillac convertibles, were climbing too quickly.

The first to relax the market observers predict the cars of 20 years and 30 years. People, they collected three decades ago because they were the cars of their youth no longer buy, and you find a coup bid turnover and planning. In addition, people want cars today, they may lead. How Katie Robbins Classic Car Club of America pointed out,”Duesenbergs are beautiful, but they succeed as a truck.”Excellent examples of popular 50 and 60 years may reach between 50% and 300% for five years now, but many models - including lackluster four-door sedans or station wagons ordinary - no increase. Hence, the collector must provide course. Victor Fiore, a car collector’s advisers, which is headquartered in Burlingame, California, said bluntly:”If you do not know what you’re doing, and you are buying for investment, I’ll bet against you. ” ‘If you want to park profits in your garage, do not forget these laws: - If a car was popular, then it will not be popular. The AMC Rambler, for a man who was not hot, if new, not yet. — If the top down, the price increases. Convertibles are glamour, model B, convertible corvette. — Power under the hood of rotation until the figures for profits. A 16-cylinder first 30 years, Cadillac Town Car is more interesting from a 12-cylinder model. A 1968 Plymouth Barracuda with a rare-426 cubic-inch Hemi engine outprices with only 318 cubic inches by 300%. — The condition is everything. Amazing amounts unpaid, it is - except insane - for cars with morschen stick cooking, chrome and rust engine broke. Buy only cars in the state of Classes 1, 2 or 3 in industry-1 - 6-rating system (for an explanation, see box on page 134)

Try not to resume a car. Unless, in other words, you are an amateur mechanics. The cost of restoration can Match, the vehicle itself, as John Harris, a collector from Dallas, has learned the hard Tour, when he paid $ 10000 for the restoration of a $ 12000 in yellow and black Ford 55 Sunliner and received only $ 14000 for the car auction in a year later. — The hands away from restoring pitiful jobs. It is easy for a beginner, as far as automatic restaurateur Danny McPherson Shamrock Auto Trim in North Miami Beach called a Buggy Bondo”,” a car, was corrected with fiberglass painted feather and borrowing , To hide the rust. — In addition, make sure on counterfeiting. ”To meet demand, said Fiore”,” rear-car mechanic, cars are literally, Ford or Chrysler has not for 30 years.”Invested $ 100 to $ 250 it takes for a Experts expert to inspect the car before paying for thousands. — To take decisions with the head, not your heart. ”You do not want a car, if you are buying for investment,”invites George Crocker, chairman of Domino’s Classic Cars in Ann Arbor, Mich., a car $ 220, 30 million collection that has in common with Thomas Monaghan, owner of Domino’s Pizza chain. To learn more about the brand you want. Join Club collectors, and go to Club meeting and automatic watch. So zero to one type of car, at the right price, in good condition.

If you use your shotgun resources available, you’ll be sorry,’’said Ed lawyer at the time Store, Nyack, NY Since the tab of a vehicle based on times as much as 100% region to region, Vendors selling at auction and auctions, try to discover its first national award dominant. Among the best sources: Hemmings Motor News (Box 100, Bennington, Vt. 05201, monthly, $ 52 First-Class, $ 19.95 the fourth level), Old Cars Price Guide (700 E. State St., Iola, Wis. 54990 ; Bimonthly, $ 12.95) And these books as automobiles values (Collector Car Auction-Reporter, 3610 Sowder Square West, Bloomington, Ind. 47401, $ 24.95), lists of September September auction at prices for thousands of models.

Be especially careful with the super-hyped collectibles of the moment: The Bad, bad High-Performance””Muskel cars 60 years and early 70’s, as the Shelby Mustang, Corvette, Chrysler Mopar cars, Chevy Camaro and the Chevelle. Only a few originals, there is a genuine, because these cars were often right extent Show Room and in some cases, drag racing in the dust. Well, to meet demand, the pieces are musculo-together in cars and patches hawked that the case itself. The restoration is”both can be a rag doll on a Supercar,’’said Rick Mayberry, vice-director of marketing for the group organizes each year of big shows a car in Carlisle, Pennsylvania Selbst”” mit figures - - On the dashboard and engine cylinder heads of the Corvette, for example - are not guarantees of authenticity.

Half of ‘Vettes agreed with the figures of fraud,’’says Victor Fiore. The best way to buy a car is characterized by a private transaction, once a small advertisement in a magazine or look for a car salesman in fill a club or a car Show. Auctions are particularly dangerous. They have a general rule, a little luck to see in the car and only iron-willed not to have won the tender by excitement. And a simple but important advice: Do not buy a car, you do not have seen. sellers high pressure is to tell you on the phone, you’ll never be a chance as a car back on this thread and silver in doubles. Two weeks later, you find a lot of rust in front of your door. As Richard Roth said,”The chances of life, about once a week.