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The collector’s car market has lost some steam recently, with a confluence of cultural and demographic trends seemingly working against it, and unless a new wave of interest rolls in, the lessons gleaned from the vehicles may soon be lost in time.
Low Tides
A 1940 Buick Limited ferried American glitterati about during WWII.
Perhaps the biggest problem facing the collector’s car market is the lack of collectors.
The ultra-expensive vehicles by far have found their biggest audience in baby boomers, who owned 58% of the nation’s nearly 5 million collectible cars in 2014. But that number has little—if any—room to grow, as the boomers age out of the population
link:
https://www.dmv.org/articles/decline-of-collectible-cars
The collector’s car market has lost some steam recently, with a confluence of cultural and demographic trends seemingly working against it, and unless a new wave of interest rolls in, the lessons gleaned from the vehicles may soon be lost in time.
Low Tides
A 1940 Buick Limited ferried American glitterati about during WWII.
Perhaps the biggest problem facing the collector’s car market is the lack of collectors.
The ultra-expensive vehicles by far have found their biggest audience in baby boomers, who owned 58% of the nation’s nearly 5 million collectible cars in 2014. But that number has little—if any—room to grow, as the boomers age out of the population
link:
https://www.dmv.org/articles/decline-of-collectible-cars