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[willowstreetguzziguy]

The THAT is called nostalgia, the definition of why I have a bunch of old Italian motorcycles. The thing about nostalgia driving interest and prices of an item is that once the personal connection (ie, nostalgia) is gone between potential buyer and said item the value drops off.

My point is that if someone who did not grow up with, lusted over, rode in etc. a late 60's muscle car the nostalgia is not there and the same potential buyer will likely de drawn to a more current performance vehicle. As time goes buy there are fewer and fewer buyers for the 60's and 70's muscle cars, partly because the glut of us baby boomers have passed and those with spare money will be looking for something else reflective of their generation.

Very Well Said!

[canuck750]

But (as I think I said once but maybe not) that doesn't explain why sports cars and bikes of the 20s and 30s, who NO ONE ALIVE was lusting after and buying when they were new, are selling for stratospheric prices, and being bought by guys who didn't get the foggiest bit interested in them until they were grown and oldish men ....

What I am referring to is the number of restored muscle cars out there, a Mustang, Camaro, Super Bee or Barracuda of the 60's are hardly rare, they made hundreds of thousands of them and a whole lot of them have been restored, many to a very high standard. There are just too many of them to be absorbed by the market once the baby boomers who grew up with them are gone.  The cars of the 20's and 30's you are referring to were made in smaller numbers, fewer were saved and the market can absorb them. I have a lot of respect for the 1st generation Honda CB750, the Kawasaki Z1 and the Suzuki 750 GT, great bikes, tons of them have been saved but far too many for the market to absorb without prices coming down. Just too much supply for demand in years to come.

[Lannis]

I have a lot of respect for the 1st generation Honda CB750, the Kawasaki Z1 and the Suzuki 750 GT, great bikes, tons of them have been saved but far too many for the market to absorb without prices coming down. Just too much supply for demand in years to come.

It may be so, but I wish that the guys with the nice GT750s would get that message.   I've been trying to buy one for years, but the prices are climbing on a steep parabolic curve faster than I can justify unbelting for their stratospheric asking prices ..... !

Lannis

[canuck750]

It may be so, but I wish that the guys with the nice GT750s would get that message.   I've been trying to buy one for years, but the prices are climbing on a steep parabolic curve faster than I can justify unbelting for their stratospheric asking prices ..... !

Lannis

There was a gorgeous low mile 1973 GT 750 on Phoenix Craigslist last fall, I think the asking price was around $6K, it looked amazing in the pictures all original. It was listed for a long time, I don’t know it ever sold. I like the 73’s with the dual front discs ant the exhaust with the black cones, very attractive.

[Lannis]

There was a gorgeous low mile 1973 GT 750 on Phoenix Craigslist last fall, I think the asking price was around $6K, it looked amazing in the pictures all original. It was listed for a long time, I don�t know it ever sold. I like the 73�s with the dual front discs ant the exhaust with the black cones, very attractive.

I had one, and it was a wonderful all-around bike.   I put a Windjammer on it; it was like riding a big quiet reliable Evinrude motor down the road.   1200 miles to a quart of injector oil, almost no smoke, nothing to do on it except check the tires and chain, no valve lash to set, no oil to change, no points to fool with, it was great .... I don't think these glasses have too much of a reddish tint to them ....

Lannis