It's
inevitable: Pen a story on the latest record-breaking auction price of a
competition Ferrari, rare muscle car or restored to
better-than-new-condition classic, and comments pour in about how the
average Joe is priced out of the hobby. While the days of the $500
Mustang or the $1,000 Alfa Romeo have long since passed, we wondered
exactly what $5,000 (a completely arbitrary, but
reasonable-by-modern-standards price) would buy someone shopping in our
own online classifieds.
First, we set the search filters, specifying a price between $1 and
$5,000; a year of manufacture between 1900 and 1990; ads with prices;
and ads that contained photos. Doing so produced a total of 370 ads,
including 104 from private sellers and 266 from dealers. While the bulk
of these ads are from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (227 out of 370), a
quick glance showed that there was still plenty of inventory worth a
further look.
See what $5,000 gets you in today's classic auto market.
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