[Glynn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_car

A classic car is an older automobile; the exact definition varies around the world. The common theme is of an older car with enough historical interest to be collectable and worth preserving or restoring rather than scrapping.
Cars 20 years and older typically fall into the classic class.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/classic

being of a high standard against which others of the same type are judged:

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[stembridge]

the collectors classification isnt YES or NO... its on a scale of low collectible and highly collectible car.

We’re actually in agreement, I was just stirring the pot... :laugh I have two VW Beetles that most would consider collectible - they were just cheap transportation when new.

I think the SS will achieve collector car status (and it won’t take decades, either), but would also agree with @Scooter that it will probably be a niche market.

Personally, I’m glad to have been able to own one and drive it throughout half the USA so far.

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[scooter trash]

Next time you are watching Barrett Jackson count how many 4 door sedans you see go across the block.

 

[willy92]

When I was working my first automotive job, in a Chryler-Plymouth dealership, in 1970, I was doing PDI's. I knew then, that, the Hemi Roadrunners, Hemi 'Cudas, GTX's, AAR Cuda's and for heavens sakes...any version of the Superbird were all going to becollectables and or classics. I feel the same way about the SS.

 

[scooter trash]

When I was working my first automotive job, in a Chryler-Plymouth dealership, in 1970, I was doing PDI's. I knew then, that, the Hemi Roadrunners, Hemi 'Cudas, GTX's, AAR Cuda's and for heavens sakes...any version of the Superbird were all going to be collectables and or classics. I feel the same way about the SS.

I absolutely, like most here love our SS and hope it becomes a classic. However, of all the cars you named how many are 4 door sedans?

 

[stembridge]

I absolutely, like most here love our SS and hope it becomes a classic. However, of all the cars you named how many are 4 door sedans?

Now that practically everybody's stopped making sedans, and the fact that the SS is a bit of a rare bird as sedans go (as was the G8), I could see that changing (if only slightly) in the future.

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[Blackhole]

You do know that the 1964 1/2 442 could of been ordered with any body style except for the station wagon. There was about 7 442's that was 4 doors. In 1965 they Olds went to strictly 2 door coupes.

 

[willy92]

I ... of all the cars you named how many are 4 door sedans?

Good point. My first decent 4 door sedan was our '99 Seville STS with the Z-rated tire option(155mph govenor).

 

[TheMealOnWheels]

If yall really think the ss is a future classic, you need to seriously step back and think... VW Phaeton W12, Kia stinger, etc. That's your competition, and I seriously doubt those would be considered classics by anyone but those who are saving them in the garage. I believe an ss will be seen at barrett Jackson one day, but it won't go for $60k without some significance like "driven by William Shatner once when he asked for a Malibu at the Philadelphia airport enterprise, said it was nice". Get over it lol

 

[Rick H.]

I think some of you are confusing what makes a car desirable. The SS has one thing going for it that none of the other cars do. It was the last 4 door model made in Oz with an LS3 and shipped to the USA for retail sale. As more younger buyers come into the collector vehicle market I don't think being a 4 door will have as much negative impact as it once did. They are used to seeing four doors on cars and everything else. There is going to come a time when the SS will be noticed by the true collectors who really set the prices on the market. There weren't that many made over 4 years and if the transmission has any impact certainly the manual with be more sought after. Will the SS ever reach Icon status? Who knows, but with all the changes in the automotive field, the day is coming where this car WILL be noticed for what it truly is. Also as time goes by more and more SS's are taken out of service for various reasons and supply and demand will intercede.

While I have fun driving mine I intentionally keep the miles down on it and try to avoid hazardous environments with it. The SS is one of the least recognized cars on the road, but once it dawns on someone all the features the SS has, it is like an epiphany for them. Case in point, on a lark I stopped at a restaurant where my brother and some of his friends were having a breakfast meet. These guys are all car fanatics and most have at least one old muscle car. My brother asked what I was driving and I said my SS. Everyone's ears perked up and one guy asked what kind of SS meaning Chevelle, Impala whatever. I replied it's just an SS... period. This got them going and I finally had to tell them what the car was and where it came from. At that point we all had to go outside and give the SS a once over. Most of the comments where, "I never knew anything about this car" or "Holy crap this thing is pretty cool", or "how come I didn't know Chevrolet made this'. I didn't go back in to the restaurant and decided to leave, but later on my brother told me my SS was a real hit with his buds and the talk at the table for quite awhile.


It's encounters like this that will make people take notice of this car and not tomorrow, or even a couple of years from now, but certainly in the short term the SS will become a desirable car for collectors. I have made a very conscious decision to leave mine as stock as possible because that's what collectors desire. I enjoy the car for what it is and maybe one day in the not too distant future and before I take the Big Sleep it may just be a collector vehicle. Then again, perhaps not...…


Rick H.

 

[SoCA-SS]

I got the mid-year 1972 Pinto wagon, 1st off the transport, $1,900.
We drove it 250,000 miles, one engine swap, drove it last in 1980, parked it.
Sat for 20 yrs in garage.
In 2000 some guy offered me $2,500.

SOLD
He made a dragster out of it.

Does that one count?

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[iratollah]

Will the SS ever reach Icon status? Who knows, but with all the changes in the automotive field, the day is coming where this car WILL be noticed for what it truly is.

Rick's conjecture could become prophecy. Holden once created some masterpieces and is now deceased.
Many great artists died penniless and their work had no value until there was no more to be had. Any collector who bought, for a pittance, a VanGogh in 1890 would have been ridiculed by his peers. After a time, appreciation of VanGogh's work grew and today some of his art commands 8 figures at auction.

Is there more interest in a brand, post-mortem? The Citroen DS series was an amazing car but hasn't gained much mindshare in the collector market. Will a 2010s GM muscle car ever become as covetable as a 1960/70s American muscle car? None of us know.
This may only matter to my children if I haven't driven the wheels off it before they inherit it.

Will there be more money to be made buying totalled SS from auction and reselling parts to the SS cultists who must have one that drives?

 

[kdc1899]

?
Let’s see.
The final left hand drive Naturally Aspirated V8 Sedan with a Manual Transmission that will ever be sold on Planet Earth.
will it be a classic?
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[kdc1899]

I am a big fan of instant Classics
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[scooter trash]

Will the G8 become a classic? If so then it stands to reason the SS will follow as a classic.

 

[wilkin4]

I absolutely, like most here love our SS and hope it becomes a classic. However, of all the cars you named how many are 4 door sedans?

Well, I was at Cars and Coffee this morning, saw a four door HellCat......:serious

 

[SoCA-SS]

Well, I was at Cars and Coffee this morning, saw a four door HellCat......:serious

funny you say that.
I believe the 3rd gen Hellcat was born "legendary / collectible" from the get go.

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[copacetic1]

I see these things all the time, they seem to be more prolific than the Z06 Vette.

Some are arguing that the truly limited, unique (in the US market) and extinct SS will not be a “classic”nor collectible because of its ho-hum looks. But I’d argue that the Hellcat, being simply up-engined and tweaked form of a vehicle that was/is being produced by the hundreds of thousands, will never be a “classic” or collectible, that is if any even survive long enough to do so.

The SS may not be a future classic either, but I think it has a better shot than the Hellcat.


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[SoCA-SS]

I see these things all the time, they seem to be more prolific than the Z06 Vette.

Some are arguing that the truly limited, unique (in the US market) and extinct SS will not be a “classic”nor collectible because of its ho-hum looks. But I’d argue that the Hellcat, being simply up-engined and tweaked form of a vehicle that was/is being produced by the hundreds of thousands, will never be a “classic” or collectible, that is if any even survive long enough to do so.

The SS may not be a future classic either, but I think it has a better shot than the Hellcat.


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Becoming CLASSIC only requires aging, it doesn't have to be in high demand.

I don't have a crystal ball to tell the future, but what I have seen over decades is that the really high hp OEM cars become highly desirable and very hard to find at any price. Key word is OEM.
I think that's where the Hellcat has an assured degree of desirability plus the younger crowd will destroy a high percentage of them.

Adding to that, the MOPAR crowd is quite fanatic.

SS's with modifications, statistically, will not fare well against a 717 to 797 hp Hellcat or even a OEM SS.
Just look at 1960s Vettes and compare prices of 327 vs 427 engine cars.

I wouldn't trade any of my 400+hp cars for a Hellcat, BUT given the proper circumstances, I would add it to my stables just for the h.e.ll of it.
bragging rights, ROAR, and SOUL - I think MOPAR blood flows in my veins.

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[Blackhole]

Just look at 1960s Vettes and compare prices of 327 vs 427 engine cars.

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I'll add just look at what resto mod C1 and C2 Vettes go compared with a similar year original example. Unless it's like a 67 L-88 or L-72 big block or a 63 split window coupe, the restos go for more money usually.