Interesting perspective. While we've chewed this fat before, with the ebb and flow of members, it's good to revive it from time to time.

Part of the disagreement that could come out of this topic is that each person brings their own definition of what is a muscle car to the discussion. We've beat that one before too, and I won't do it here again. True muscle cars are still pretty pricey, near muscle cars are all over the board. With modest drive trains, and "normal" trim and options, these near muscle cars are "affordable" to most anyone who wants one. But the same things drive pricing as always ............................supply and demand. 76's comments focus on the demand part of that. I think it's still accurate to note that most people (emphasis on the most, not to be confused with all) start out with car ownership buying an "affordable" used car relative to their place in time. So it is quite natural for today's young folks to buy a used car, typically used "family" cars of their era. When I was a newly licensed driver I and my contemporaries were buying early to mid '50's cars. These were cars that were new when we were 5 to 10 years old. Sure, a few bought even older cars, but they were the exception. We then modified these cars as far as our budgets would allow to make them into whatever we thought was cool. To me, kids today are following a very similar pattern.

As time goes by we increase our earning power, and broaden our ability to humor our car dreams. For guys my age, that meant buying an older car, if we were more attracted to traditional rod material. By older I mean the ones that were the "used" cars of the generation ahead of us. Usually cars that were made anywhere from 20 years before we were born to the year of our hatching. Or, if our "dream car" was the true muscle car we couldn't afford when we were teens, we fulfilled that dream. Today, as we "geezers" have reached a point in life where we're in pretty good shape financially, we drive the market on rods and muscle cars. Since we're the "post war baby boom", there are a lot of us, and we are having a big impact on those markets. Until we reach an age where we start to "clean up" our lives and, due to health issues or death, start selling off all the "stuff" we've accumulated, the current market pricing will sustain. (barring some major financial crash).

So, for 76 and anyone else hoping for muscle car prices to drop, you're a bit ahead of your time. Remembering supply and demand, there's a good chance that in 10 to 15 years from now there could be the beginnings of a growth in supply. Be ready!!