quote:Originally posted by Chuck Melton:
When I was looking to buy a Pantera in the mid 1990's prices seemed unusually low. Whe I bought, an average 'sorted' car was $25K.
3-4 years ago I felt the average car was much closer to $35K. Mike Drew generally disagreed with me. We would go inspect a car for a potential buyer and I would generally place it's value several K above Mike's estimate.
I don't know if Mike has raised his guess at an "average" price since 2003, but I'd say it has risen closer to $40K.
I watch a lot of cars change hands, most closer to this price than say $30K.
Owning is OK, DRIVING is GOOD !
Chuck
Now I think
I tend to agree with you more Mr. Melton. I don't think others have malicious intent in underestimating values, it is more they remembered what they paid for such and such, and by golly it was ten years ago. ONce you get a Pantera time speeds up. It is like when you were a kid summers seemed to last forever. But now time seems to go faster and summers rush by. Panteras are like time machines in they speed your life up because it sure doesn't seem like ten years since I bought mine. I look at it in the garage and it still seems new and exciting. With so many things to do, car shows, repairs, going on stress relieving drives, time goes faster. It is like my wife always says...
"One thing lead to another, and before you knew it, we were all dead."
My wife is real phylisophical. She also says "I think, therefore I know."