Most everyone with an opinion was saying:

" Mustangs will never be worth much because they made too many of them. "

As I window shop for a decent `69/`70 Mach 1, Oh how I really wish that were true.

 

i look at ebay several times a week at 69 stangs .. makes me proud i have my clunker ..

 

She's a beauty Willie!!!

 

40 years ago, I was playing with Hotwheel and Matchbox cars that would now be worth a mint if I had not crushed them with hammers, a vice, or set them on fire.

 

40 years ago I had this ( well not this same car just one just like it )

 

LOL!!! I did the same thing!!!

 

40 years ago my dad was born lol
Do sone of you feel old now? Haha

 

Dont forget the fire crackers. A cool way to turn those cars into covertibles. LOL

You could buy M-80`s at most every fireworks stand back then as well. Ahhhhhh! Those were the days!

 

lol, I felt old before you said that. I remember when 50 sounded old. Now it doesn't seem THAT old.

 

To me honestly "old" isnt the right word to use unless said "old" person is above 65 or at least 70.

 

wait...then how old are YOU?

 

Remember 40 years ago when I was -5 years old!

 

I suffer from CRS so I can't remember that far back! :-)

 

You can hear the exact same comments today, that Mustangs like my 2012 gt will never be worth much because they made so many of them, even though they only make a small fraction of the number of cars they used to make in the 60s and early 70s. I think they are important cars and the future values will reflect that.

 

20 years ago was 1995. How much is a 1995 GT worth now? How about a V6?


There is a 1995 V6 car on eBay for $1,100 with no bids and a 1995 GT for $2,000 OBO. Who knows if these cars will be any more desirable so just love them today and don't expect them to be worth much in 20 years.

 

In all fairness there is a big difference in what a 20 year old car used to be. Today, a car will for the most part hold together well for a long time. For example, a 2005 Mustang will still be fairly structurally & mechanically sound unless it was completely abused. The same can also be said of a 1995 Mustang...Even a 1990.

It`s really time I think to re-evaluate what it means to be a classic/antique car. I think we all can agree that back in 1995, that cars from 1970 & 1975 weren`t made as well, and generally werent expected to be around more than 5-7 years before being scrapped out. When those cars from that era ( and before ) reached 10, it was a rare exception.

 

That is true. I got my first Mustang, the '69, in late 1976. She was already very tired and rusty. Had about 98-99k miles.

My '06 still goes like a beast at over 136k miles. Mechanically and structurally a vastly superior car. Like night and day.

 

69/70's cost a lot more to restore than the early ones. Here's the interior of a '69 I looked at recently.

 

I can barely remember yesterday. High school and college really fried my brain.