

Right now these are getting wrecked to pieces and the overall value is being driven down. This is a car that as it got older became a prime candidate for grassroots motorsports enthusiasts. The rest will get to the price point that if you have the kind of money to afford a really nice s14 you will prolly just use that as a down payment on a 400z.Įdit: for further supporting evidence look at the 350z market now. Mk4 supra, fd rx7, gtr skylines, the last gen fc rx7, evo's, maybe well kept gc8 and bug eye sti's (hard maybe here). The apex predator cars will go above that. That's also the kind of fun that's going to keep these cars from appreciating past about 5k. The reality is it will run for 3 months then some asshole kid will door me at a drift event because that's what's fun now. The reason is because I'm being uncompromising. I'm in the "move heaven and earth to restore" an old corolla. im about to have to fix it and im not happy. one of my kids just offloaded one in my front yard 2 days ago. Now the only thing out there are autos and clapped out drift missiles. 5 years ago you could pick up and excellent specimen of a 5 speed low miles miata with a hardtop or e30 325i for 3-5 grand. Right now miatas and e30/e36 bmws are going through it. Like I said this is repeatable to every market. Getting an original gt-s is just a non starter unless you have the kinda money that doesn't want a 80s shit box econo car. Or buy a clapped out sr5 that's been motor swapped and looks like someone has tap danced on every panel. Now best you can do is pay like $5000 for a good looking automatic sr5. Initial d did this to the corolla market. so that you can put it in a ditch or wrap it around a pole. Or move heaven and earth to source a very clean version of the car you want. Eventually your options become: buy an absolute pile version of a car you really like and move heaven and earth restoring it. Then when they've killed literally every 5 speed they move onto doing terrible swaps on automatics that are plagued with issues and end up wrapped around telephone poles and laying on their sides in ditches anyways. Then they start engine swapping the dx models. The si's then the ex models that had the same engine but crappy supporting bits (drum brakes, no rear sway bar, etc). First all The good models got trashed and broken to pieces. Look at the market for 90s Hondas for your example.
