Historic Racing and Historic Racing Today Forum-Where is it going ?

[Al Weyman]

The one annoying thing I always get from this forum is that I always feel that those who compete in AppK (the supposedly top level) appear to regard those that don't as inferior or that we run 'Hot Rods' which are not true historic race cars.

I tend to agree Moose.

At some point it is likely that the current top value and rare cars become museum pieces only and the core of weekend by weekend working cars simply evaporates as existing afficiandos become past interest and too little fresh blood joins in to fill the void. I think that was a point that driftwood made a few posts back.

I think you may be wrong on this analaysis. I think once a car is only useful as a musuem piece its value will be slashed and I tell you what brings me to this conclusion.

In my back yard under a tarpaulin I have a car that is one of 15 built, has been raced infront of thousands of people and millions on live TV, been driven by some of the most famous drivers from the 70/80's of all time including F1 drivers of the day and prehaps even Dale Earnhardt and yet is not currently worth me renovating. Why? Only one reason I can see that this car is not worth much more than the last one I see sold at $50,000 in 2007 is the simple fact that because of its spec (tubular spaceframe NASCAR style) it would have virtualy nowhere to race in historic motorsport. There is one of these in the Talladaga Musuem of Speed but how many musuems are there that want stuff like this or indeed any old race cars, no I think the value is in the cars that can still actively be raced like its predecessor the Mark Donague IROC Porsche advertised in this months Octane and they are probably asking so much its 'Price on application', are the ones worth the big money and if Historic Racing does fade away so will the value of these cars.