Interesting thought. You're not alone thinking that as young young ones come along they'll be interest in the cars of their youth like, argh! tuner Jap cars and Tauruses. I've heard that concept before from AACA and CCCA guys. In other words the old cars rolling today will not draw interest.

I think for a wide variety of reasons that will not be the case but who knows for sure. What I do see is kids and younger people identifying with the standard cruise-in cars like 40 Fords and 48 Chevies.

Even when those 90s Tauruses are 30 years old they will never be valuable relative to the stuff out there now simply because they built a gazillion of 'em. And when they get to anything with computers that controll most of the functions it'll be interesting to see how that could be avoided along with all the danged sensors, relays, miles of wire and such.

The sad thing that ended and will never come back is the true ease of interchangability we enjoyed in those late 50s on throught the mid-70s. Each marque could interchange engines and trannies with relative ease. It was possible to build sleeper 427 Falcons, 426 Darts and 427 Novas with little major work.

Today the alternator, starter, fuel pump and all else is unique to each model which jacks up price and can often cause out of stock conditions. There was a time when you could use an Olds generator in a Pontiac in a pinch without flocking up EPA emissions and what have you. It was a bolt turner's dream.

But maybe in another 20-30 years those Tauruses will be sought after. Since the FWD cars with transverse mounted mills have nothing much worth rebuilding after 150,000 mlies they'll all be recycled.

The good thing is I won't be around to see it.