sigtauenus
Active Member
I regularly read several Mustang forums, and it seems as though on each one, there are always projects in various stages from the undriven wasting away hulk, to the disassembled rust bucket in the garage, to the ducted taped together daily driver, to the nice original condition, to the restored driver, to the trailer queen. That said, I've noticed over the past few years that there are more and more cars that getting the full resto treatment.
So then I started thinking about the Mustang market in general, and how with millions of cars made, and a significant number of them wrecked, parted, or otherwise disposed of, how does the population of remaining cars look? If I tried to plot it, I'd say you have a steadily decreasing line of Mustangs available since any given model was produced. However, what is happening with the plot of the quality of those cars? I am thinking that with the hobby today, and the car taken to maintain all original cars and the effort to restore the basket cases, that the plot of the quality/condition line might look like a line steadily decreasing initially, but at some point turning back upward. Is this possible?
So here is the thought today. Of the remaining Mustangs, focus on 65-73, are they in generally the worst condition due to aging, or are we looking at them as generally being in better condition than they've been in for a couple decades? I'd equate this to a Darwinian survival of the fittest, where the cars that have survived are kept in good condition and the real beaters have been scrapped.
So then I started thinking about the Mustang market in general, and how with millions of cars made, and a significant number of them wrecked, parted, or otherwise disposed of, how does the population of remaining cars look? If I tried to plot it, I'd say you have a steadily decreasing line of Mustangs available since any given model was produced. However, what is happening with the plot of the quality of those cars? I am thinking that with the hobby today, and the car taken to maintain all original cars and the effort to restore the basket cases, that the plot of the quality/condition line might look like a line steadily decreasing initially, but at some point turning back upward. Is this possible?
So here is the thought today. Of the remaining Mustangs, focus on 65-73, are they in generally the worst condition due to aging, or are we looking at them as generally being in better condition than they've been in for a couple decades? I'd equate this to a Darwinian survival of the fittest, where the cars that have survived are kept in good condition and the real beaters have been scrapped.
bj