40th Birthday for my HQ sandman

[jennie285]

I think this was said before on a thread but the boom is what we had when we were young. Rodney and I are of the age where we have finished educating our kids, they have left, we have bought property and set ourselves up for retirement one day. So we now want our car back which started with our yellow van, them red, them ute, then green. It was only meant to be one but it's addictive. The next round of cars will be wb Utes and Group 3 crummadores. Just look at the craze of the time add thirty years to it and you have the next sought after model.

[Big Rob]

I think this was said before on a thread but the boom is what we had when we were young. Rodney and I are of the age where we have finished educating our kids, they have left, we have bought property and set ourselves up for retirement one day. So we now want our car back which started with our yellow van, them red, them ute, then green. It was only meant to be one but it's addictive. The next round of cars will be wb Utes and Group 3 crummadores. Just look at the craze of the time add thirty years to it and you have the next sought after model.

I agree 100%.
As far as value goes, the price asked is inversely proportional to the availability of the cars, ie: the rarer the car, the higher the asking price. This is why A9X's and L-34's are fetching more money than SL/R-5000's, GTHO's get more than GT's, etc.... And as they get rarer the price goes up.

I follow the US car auctions and it's been interesting how cars that weren't popular or expensive a few years ago are now rapidly rising in price. Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am's are the perfect example. 10 years ago a really good one was under $10,000. Now they are over $25,000!

Our own favourite, the Sandman is also a good example. It's not that long ago that they were almost worthless, now rusty wrecks are getting good money.