cars are worth as much as someone is willing to pay for them.

Here is the deal yesterday I was at Porsche Club track day and one of the entrants who had come down from Canada with a hauler full of Porsches, complimented my car and commented how fun old Datsuns are...............BUT of course he mentioned his buddy had a pair of 510's. While I think Z cars "may" in the coming years go through a period like American muscle cars where idiots pay way to much for them at auction............510's may see a little of this two. 1200's have just as much race history as 510's and Z cars but folks just seem to bypass them. So I expect the days of our buying good running 1200's for $350 are gone, but 30 years from know I'd expect a clean stock 1200 to be worth maybe 8-10K in todays dollars and 12-15K for a modded one. Things like CA Turbo Utes and coupes with race history maybe 15-20K.................the problem with Japanese cars is they make so many of them, they are well made and last forever and they have almost no snob appeal. In contrast to say a 50's Porsche 356, many of them now at six figures, which were hand built in low numbers and have become an iconic image. Compare the last of the 356's to a 1200 (the cars are only 5 years apart): a GX coupe was rated at 83HP vs 90HP for a 356SC model, a 1200 is 350lbs lighter, the 356 has a slightly higher top speed by about 5-6 mph, on equal tires they offer about the same road holding. I've driven a couple of 356's at the track and my 1200 will turn faster lap times than a 356 with the same level of prep. Why the 40-90K difference in price.................as I mentioned they never had any cool Hollywood movie character driving a 1200 and Porsche never made more than 8000 356's a year..............let's face we don't own hand made in small numbers sports cars, which is fine by me as a 1200 is much more fun to own.

Tom

oh i forgot to say that it is modified.. stock ones still fetch upwards of 7k for a original

they actually sell for over 20k? or are they just advertised for that?.

I find alot of the people trying for over 15 don't ever end up selling their cars. But I could be wrong I just don't seem to find anyone who pays that much for them.

some utes are already fetching well over 20k... thee more projects that people start, the more that fail means the price is higher :)

They still make A15s brand new

a series are still well common. the cars they came in a rareish, but they came in fair few vehicles over the years.

well if aftermarket pannels and everything else are still availible ( i hope) then parts wont be the issue, but engine sapres on a a12 or anything might be harder to find and alot of these 1200 will neeed engine swaps to keep them running in 10 years time, so find a engine thats very common these days...

Appreciate slowly though....same sort of speed as something like a 4 door Torana.

They will get rarer but spare parts also go up in price - be a long time before a 1200 would be worth more than a couple of grand (stock at least).

I wonder in 10 years time when we're all buy electric cars how old petrol cars will fare with rego, roadworthiness....

I recon 1000's and 1200's will only appriciate from now on.