Reply to "PANTERA MARKET ?"

I too am of the mind — as David, George and others note that buying a Pantera as a financial investment is not a wise idea. However, buying a Pantera as an hobby car/passion outlet is, IMHO, safer financially than a Corvette or a Viper. Those are dropping like rocks in value and are soon just low-priced used cars where a major repair could end up costing the value of the car.

As far as collectable value goes, that GT5S in NY is one of the original (vs cloned) 120 or so produced by DeTomaso and I think it is quite reasonably priced based on the collector market for low-volume sports cars. I doubt the buyer of that car would come out behind much in 5 years—especially compared to a Vette. On the other hand, if you find an $80K Countach that doesn't need $50K in rebuilds, that would also be a solid investment (if ANY investment can be solid).

Buy the best you can, drive it and have fun now. Let your estate worry about how bad an investment it was "later".