I was buying early cars when a teenager. They were easy and cheap to aquire. The keeping up with the jones thing had started and a new car was a status symbol. Nobody wanted the really old stuff.

My dad said you should be keeping some of the cars. He thought someday they would be worth money. We lived in the city and proper long term storage was not reasonable financially. Remember that you could buy a really good low millage car for 100.00. I like some of my friends brought and sold then on a regular basis. There was always lots of them around. Sometimes we traded cars. We never thought of the changes to come.

The kid across the street started a company called sports cars unlimited. I drove some of his inventory occasionally. To think that 300.00 was a lot for some of them seems insane today. He also raced cars and built it into a giant business over the years.

Turned out dad was right though. Any one of them would have returned at least a hundred times their cost if they had been stored well today. Perhaps 200 times on some. The very last of them at the time was a mint 1950 mercury with very low millage in 196I. I purchased my first new car then. Almost 60 years ago. Nostalgia perhaps?

My dads suggestion was based on his 14 years of living in California. He said the heavy classics of the 1930s where sitting in the back row of the car lots cheap there. Cheap as nobody wanted them and the car collecting had really not started yet. So he possibly suspected the future perhaps.