No Reserve: 41-Years-Owned 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III for sale on BaT Auctions - ending November 17 (Lot #59,772) | Bring a Trailer
Apparently somebody owning a car for a long time is now a selling perk? Same as the Cougar listed elsewhere. http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/threads/1968-mercury-cougar-xr-7.56574/
I think so. My '65 Merc is a two owner car. 1st owner from '65-98, and me from 98-current. I think when cars are this old and spend this much time with a family, it (only) is my opinion that they (arguably) may be treated better and cared for. I know my '65 has been. I think that would be more desirable than to say, buying a model-year 2003 car for example - that when you read the carfax and it already has had 5 or so owners. I don't know, it's hard to say as I have always taken care of my cars, but that was drilled in by Depression-era parents.
It likely was WW II that set it for them, not the Great Depression, as SO MANY otherwise good cars met the scrapper's torches for the war effort. Used cars to replace unrepairable broken-down ones were in such short supply back then because of it, and after war's end, when people had amassed so much money on war production jobs, that new cars, tires, engines and transmissions, etc. flew out the door, and those cars they traded in, the few best were cherry-picked, and the rest also hit the scrapper's torches. It's how my mom got a beautiful, low-mileage 1929 Model A roadster in high school. It had been parked in a garage it's whole life, only getting driven a few times a year, then traded in on a new Packard in '48. Grandpa Fred got it for her in a deal for his '49 Packard later that year when the new models debuted and Mom got her license.
You’re probably both right. I couldn’t imagine telling today’s generation, guess what no new cars for three years. To Bill’s point I too had depression era folks that not cheap, but spent their quarters like sewer lids. They wanted a balance between quality, and value, and they by God appreciated what they had, and took care of it. I love the fact I have a ‘56 Fairlane, 1 family owned since new. It was my first car in 1976. I’ll probably be buried in it. Lol
With the car companies having chip shortages no new cars for three years might not be so far fetched.
There was an announcement last week that Ford and GM were coming to a solution on the chip shortage. Why do I get the idea that this will fall by the wayside?
