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I think that early models, perfectly original, will be collectable, but not for a while, possibly not for 10+ more years. If you want to make money, put it in stocks. With rare exceptions, cars are a bad investment, and have a lot of hidden (and deliberately ignored) costs.
I do note that some muscle cars and/or hot rods of the 40/50/60's that have been modified with period items can be as valuable as museum piece original cars. Although this will be a problem for my heirs, not me, I've tried to tastefully modify my car with "period" accessories mostly from Germany, and have kept all original parts or have original spares.
My opinion, the stratospheric prices 60's muscle cars have been getting has peaked or will peak soon, "strangely" coinciding with the peak earning years of the people who were in their teens and twenties at the time. Many collectible items follow this pattern, Beatles cards, record albums, etc.
With muscle cars, generation X and Y people are going to wonder exactly what the thrill was about driving a badly-made, ill-handling, slow (yeah, slow), crude and incredibly dangerous vehicle, not having any memories of the times in which they were built.
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