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I have a client that donated his car to charity - a 1992 Ford Tempo with 26,411 miles. What a shame that such a specimen wasn't driven more over the years. I guess they were preserving it in anticipation of the $1100 charitable deduction. |
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| I didn't know you could rack up 26,000 miles on a Tempo. | |
| I didn't say it was the original engine. If you replace every part on the car over time, sometimes repeatedly, you can even get a Tempo to go 26,000 miles - unless you were like a friend of mine who had two Tempos burn to the ground when they were almost new. | |
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I think those specialty Japanese cars will be collectible too. But there's not a whole lot else from this time or even the 90s as a whole. When even a boring 57 Chevy sedan will be wanted by someone somewhere, I doubt anyone in 2040 will want a 1995 Lumina or Corsica etc. And as there are always outliers...an 85 Tempo my mom bought new had 190K on it when it was finally disposed of...never had the engine or transmission touched, and it was beat on by 3 kids when it got to be an older car. |
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Nothing odd on the roads around here this rainy day, but there's a good load of ebay stuff: Stanley with interesting history, worth saving Dreamer These bathtubs are funny things...alas, this one is probably beyond redemption These were the talk of the car guys when I was in junior high. I never gave these things any respect, as they seemed a bit 'kit car' for my tastes. Looks like I wasn't wrong, given some of the detail shots. Hilarious dash, I love the digital cheesiness Real Auburn, fake body, still kinda pretty Is this what Princess Grace was killed in? Or was it the later design with the hatchback, SD1 or whatever? It's a commie 55/56 Packard from 20 years later And a lovely real one for comparison I really like this, for an old beast...the patina, the originality...is that dash made of catalin? It really shouldn't be touched Should be worth saving You rarely see these in this condition. Kind of a hamdsome old tank Pretty DeSoto, if you like fins Early DS. I wonder if any of the very early cars with translucent roof panels made it to NA When Chevy can have something with this much style, GM's "might" will have returned. Until then, I'll take this over just about any new offering Why? Ghostbusters! The elegance that Caddy once was. Early sunroof is cool. Lovely old car. Cool way to get a 113 back on the road, seeing as so many are beyond feasible restoration anyway And a pretty Mirada for Andre. The 81 Cordoba my sister had as a beater as a kid was this color, but with a pukey creme vinyl top
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Replying to: fintail (Feb 12, 2005 6:24 pm) |
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it was one thing when you were finding cars I like that were on the other side of the country! But now you're hitting too close to home here, like that '78 Bonneville in VA or the Mirada in Philly!  I don't know where Gladys VA is, but Philly's only about 2 hours away. If that Bonneville had any V-8 other than the 301, I'd be really tempted. But I've just heard enough bad things about the 301 to fear it. Although I guess if it's been well taken care of and pampered, it should have plenty of miles left. I REALLY like that Mirada! I don't know if I'd brag about a "numbers matching" 318 though, as a correct stock 318 from 1980 only has 120 hp! That '59 DeSoto's a really nice car too, and has the swivel seats! I wonder if it's fairly rare for one not to have the roof-matching spear down the side? For the most part I didn't like the turn Chrysler styling took in 1959. The Plymouths just got ugly, while the Dodges were just too overdone up front. The Imperial front-ends got a bit clunky, and somehow, I think the '59 Chryslers just got boring looking. I always liked the '59 DeSoto, though. It's a bit heavy-handed compared to the '57-58 models, but I still wouldn't mind having one! |
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Hey guys- I saw the comment earlier about many cars from the '90s not being desired in the near future. But I was thinking...what about some cars from the early '90s with "semi-classic" styling like, say, a '91 Buick LeSabre or Cadillac Eldorado? Would you consider those downsized GM models to be future collectibles at some point? I think those two are some of the only GM cars from that era to have styling that's in good taste. Well of course, then you have early '90s Ferraris and Bentleys, that is but another story. |
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no on the Caddy, and hell no on the Buick. Those Eldorados were unloved when new, and probably even less so nowadays. Now a '79-85 Eldo/Riv/Toronado would have some limited collector appeal. Not high-dollar appeal now, but enough that people seem to hang onto them. Now there is some demand for big RWD GM cars fromm the early 90's, like the Caprice, Roadmaster, and Fleetwood/Brougham, but something like a LeSabre is so diminutive in comparison, that it's really not much more than a Taurus or similar car from that era. People like the big GM cars because they're big, RWD, and V-8, and kind of a throwback to simpler times. In contrast, an Eldorado or LeSabre are just a product OF their time. Small, FWD, V-6, and not that memorable. Space-efficient, but space efficiency and good fuel economy do not a collector car make. Now that I think back on it, wasn't the '91 LeSabre still the angular, squared-off one? IIRC, they went to the rounded style in '91 for the Park Ave, and '92 for the LeSabre. |
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a great color combo on the best year ('56) for the Nomad. Yer darn right it beats the tar out of any GM now made and buries any current Chevy. We were discussing Princess Grace's Rover in another topic and one poster thinks that she was killed in a Rover 3500 which is the V8 version of that 200TC you found. I thought it was the later Legend-based V6 hatchback. |
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