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spinsky · 04-04-03, 10:24 AM

With owners like you guys, is it any wonder why there's so little data regarding resale?!? There ARE no resales!!! At least not often, and for obvious reasons--these cars become personal, and hence the diminished importance of cost. I understand entirely.

Actually, I felt the same about one of my cars, figuring I would keep it forever and putting tens of thousands into it PER YEAR for several years, until I finally stopped and said "What am I doing?" Ironically, it was about that moment that I discovered the world of CAVs, GTDs, RFs, NZs and the like. So now, I am looking back and asking, "How much of my investment can I get out of my car to put toward the 40?" It's only natural that under such circumstances my focus would include the question of resale.

But I wholly concur--we're not in this for the investment. As a comparison, I have a friend who buys (yucky) modern art--in part to augment pretensions of snobbery and in part as an investment. I think he's only meeting one of his goals!!

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04-04-03, 10:24 AM	#20 (permalink)
spinsky Rookie Join Date: Jan 2003 GT40: los angeles Posts: 26 Rep Power: 6	Re: spaceframe GT40 kit With owners like you guys, is it any wonder why there's so little data regarding resale?!? There ARE no resales!!! At least not often, and for obvious reasons--these cars become personal, and hence the diminished importance of cost. I understand entirely. Actually, I felt the same about one of my cars, figuring I would keep it forever and putting tens of thousands into it PER YEAR for several years, until I finally stopped and said "What am I doing?" Ironically, it was about that moment that I discovered the world of CAVs, GTDs, RFs, NZs and the like. So now, I am looking back and asking, "How much of my investment can I get out of my car to put toward the 40?" It's only natural that under such circumstances my focus would include the question of resale. But I wholly concur--we're not in this for the investment. As a comparison, I have a friend who buys (yucky) modern art--in part to augment pretensions of snobbery and in part as an investment. I think he's only meeting one of his goals!! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]