S-Chassis as future collector cars.

[Yuri]

Anyone else think that someday S-chassis will start rolling across the auction block at Barret-Jackson?
The reason I ask, is a long time ago, musclecars were in the exact same position that 240's are in today, being bought, driven, and modified by young guys for cheap. 240's are the #1 most modified car in the US.
So, down the road, do you think our generation will grow nostalgic for our old S13's and 14's, and start buying them up as garage queens?
Will they still be modified, or will previously modified cars be put on the rotisseire for a number's matching restoration?

Which s-chassis do you think will be the most sought out by collectors?
Kouki S14 SE 5-speeds?
Zenki S13 two-tones?
Verts?

It's fun to speculate, and honestly this won't affect me at all, I just plan to hang on to the one I've got.

(and by the way, I loathe Barret-Jackson with a deep-seated seething hatred.)

[SimpleS14]

I can see imports being collector car's or someone restoring a 240SX (dunno why). In regards to your question, the verts...since they are rare period.


I know I'd buy a S15 down the road (if I could) and keep it as a garage queen.

[TiNMAN]

black s14a SE 5spd w/o sunroof!

[A Spec Products]

People need to stop crashing and ruining them.

Take care of your cars!

I'm generalizing but these days I mainly see beat up ones (at least in Socal)

Maybe you should start hoarding interior parts, cause when people "restore" these things, they gonna wonder why all of them are stripped (for no reason) lol

I think verts would be least popular (now and tomorrow)

Probably a clean S14 Kouki 5 Speed SE though, to answer your question

[azndoc]

I would like to think that $omewhere out there, there i$ $omeone who ha$ a minted 1989 240$x coupe or hatch that i$ $till wrapped in pla$tic and $mell$ like brand new car $mell.

But I highly doubt it.

[muddafakka]

I think the 89 hatch, S13 coupes and verts, and 98 S14s will be the most sought after.

Somebody already has collector plates on their vert so you never know...

I plan on looking into this later on via Hagerty Insurance.

[KA-T_240]

the rare ones are the stock ones

I know in Sioux Falls, SD there is a 89 coupe with under 20k on it. It is MINT!

[revat619]

kouki s14's will be. I say that without any bias what so ever.

[fliprayzin240sx]

Dont think itll happen, I say that because I dont see 240Z or 280Zs going down that road. Its almost as bad as saying EG6 Civics will become collector items too 50 yrs from now.

[brndck]

2tone coupes. with clean original paint. and working hud. they're hard to find already.

[spool_sample]

Considering the way the 240 community is, I see them going more towards vintage racing cars than collector's cars.

[kingkilburn]

I think people will be searching high and low for clean s13 two tones with no bodywork. Personally I would look for a clean ruby zenki with a sunroof.

[chibo]

Where does the "most modified car in the US" come from? I seriously doubt it.

[eastcoastS14]

^^ lol buy mine then....almost totally stock ruby zenki no sunroof 4lug and just turned 100k....maybe mine will be worth somethin in the future lol

edit: yeah chibo is right....I seriosly doubt 240s are the most modified cars in the US...maybe in cali but Im lucky if I spot one every few months as Im sure is true for the rest of the nation.....it has to be civics or integras or something

[Phlip]

Originally Posted by chibo

Where does the "most modified car in the US" come from? I seriously doubt it.

+1, unless he means the number of people who are currently acquiring them with the intentions of modifying.
I think that they CAN be, given the number of people who buy them and modify (MOST of whom fuck them up and/or wreck them in the process)... At some point down the road, "unmolested examples" will be few and far between, greatly pushing out the retained value of those examples. Quality of modifications and all that shit will effect their fetch, of course.
It will be interesting to wait and see what happens.

[DOOK]

the more they wreck, the rarer they become, driving up prices now and forever.

[Matej]

Thinking about the future makes me sad.

[Kn1ves]

I find the whole...

60s Mustang available in Coupe, Fastback and Convertible
90s 240sx available in Coupe, Fastback and Convertible

comparison pretty funny.
But in a few years time, our cars will probably just be like the Old Z cars today.

[DOOK]

so when then does a 68 fastback shelby GT500 equivalent S chassis come out... cause sign this mother fucker up.

[agame001]

^^^^^ HAHAHAHA!!!! NICE!!!^^^^

there will be collectors, but let's be realistic about it. stock 240's (stock suspension & engine) aren't aggressive enough to sell for big money, no matter how far along in the future we are.

we love s chassis, but put yourself in the shoes of those HONDA hooligans...
do you really think that they would buy a bone stock 1991 crx for more than $20K in any point during their lives?
i don't..
IMHO...i think that the same would go for a bone stock 240sx

[swiftdrift]

Originally Posted by Yuri

240's are the #1 most modified car in the US.

How do you justify that?....

[Kn1ves]

Originally Posted by DOOK

so when then does a 68 fastback shelby GT500 equivalent S chassis come out... cause sign this mother fucker up.

El es one swapped? Perhaps.

Originally Posted by agame001

^^^^^ HAHAHAHA!!!! NICE!!!^^^^

there will be collectors, but let's be realistic about it. stock 240's (stock suspension & engine) aren't aggressive enough to sell for big money, no matter how far along in the future we are.

we love s chassis, but put yourself in the shoes of those HONDA hooligans...
do you really think that they would buy a bone stock 1991 crx for more than $20K in any point during their lives?
i don't..
IMHO...i think that the same would go for a bone stock 240sx

I've seen low mileage mint ones go for $10k... and were only 17 years into it.

[flclsteve]

if they did become id image it would be an s15 or a late model s14

[Phlip]

Originally Posted by swiftdrift

How do you justify that?....

After I thought about it, I think about it more of a "per capita" thing, looking at the number of people who buy them to modify them opposed to those that buy them to leave them BONE stock.

[mkiv98]

no, that is more for cars like supra, skyline, NSX, rx-7, maybe 300zx. look at what people are paying for cars like 2000GT and the old school GT-R's from the 60s and 70s.

right now a 98 S14 5sp with low miles seems cool, but after 25 years we can start to import S15s.

[steve shadows]

how many 510's do you see at Barret-Jackson?

well there is your answer.

[Edgar]

i think they will all rust one day and just disappear

[Andrew Bohan]

240 the most modded car?

i'm willing to bet there are more modded civics than total number of 240's ever produced.

[slw240sx]

Originally Posted by Edgar

i think they will all rust one day and just disappear

+1, the ones here in ohio and the midwest will just turn to rust and go back into the ground as Iron supplement. I saw a Vert today with the most extensive rust i have ever seen, worse then a 80s toyota trucks, i honestly don't know how the seats and carpet were still in the car...

[HyperTek]

i had a 190e 16valve cosworth, pretty dam rare.. future classic

http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature...E_2_3-16.shtml

I traded my sr20 s13 for it =p.. my190e was a eurospec with the rated 185hp high comp motor.. Just grew tired of it becuase it was too precious, I felt bad whenever I would want to mod or change something.. Car was mad clean though, id like to say less then 500 probably still on the road in teh US..

Traded it for a FC.. tons of FCs, yet you dont always see them on occasion like you see S13 every day.. But RX7 is already in history books... I got a few classic car books (just got another hardback on christmas) and it had the rx7 in it, and even a little brief info on teh fc and fd, esp for Mazda being the main pusher of the rotary engine. I figure mine like this, its a hot rod.. japanese hot rod..

Whoever said 240z aint worth much, your wrong,.. prestine perfect condition 240z go for alot!!$$$$ but the lower the production number, the better. 260z and 280z aint worth as much.

Ive seen a mk2 supra on craigslist that was in prestine condition, and the guy was asking 15k for it! now for me its hard to believe that car would be worth it..
Tastefully modded cars might be worth something later down the road? I dont know, mods usually just reflect the trend of its era.
its gonna take like 30 -40 years til our cars are unique.. and by the way we drive them now, they will have like a million miles on em lol
Japanese cars are soo mass produced.. once you have a rare car , and go back to japanese cars, you kinda miss having something unique.

Yah ok i can see how maybe later down the road that 240sx, 300zx, 350z, ae86 and other cars might become interesting later, seeing how they became a cult classic esp right now.. it all depends on the times of our era. Example- Starion isnt that popular yet it is more rare, yet there was nothing that could have made it unpopular, its just no one really liked it as an old car.