Hagerty’s article on 355

The demographic shift is interesting, indeed. Rare 50s and 60s Ferraris went down in value in recent years. A similar pattern on the Porsche side. F-Model values came down and G-Model and 964 went up significantly. Despite the huge production numbers.

 

I concur!

 

I’m 51 I have money for toy cars. 348 is as old a Ferrari I would want, 930 is as old a P car I would want. Not at all interested in older stuff. Makes sense to me.

 

Thanks for the link! Great article.
Robert

 

I’m Gen X exposed to 80s cars during my formative years. As dual street/race car enthusiast, I favor 60s and 90s cars...the former consists of cars before I was born. I’m likely an outlier.

95 355 Challenge is one of my all-time favs, but would trade for a 67 330 P3/4.

 

Same - I like 60's and some 70's cars, then 90's. 80's there are a couple of cool cars but mostly there were better versions of them in the '90's. A few exceptions exist (eg Grand National) but for the most part the car makers were so lazy they had the same models for sale in the early 90's that they did in the 80's but with 100+ more HP and a lot better interiors/refinement. C4 Vette is a good example, the last zr1 had nearly double the power of the first C4.

For a lot of GenX'ers that were into cars as kids, the late 60's cars were the ones we lusted after as they were faster and cooler looking than anything made until the '90s. I remember building model cars of Boss mustangs, GTO's and the like and wondering why the car industry went so wrong.

 

90s sports cars are to me the nicest to wrench on and upgrade as they are the peak of the analog era, basically as most recurring issues of 70s/80s cars were fixed and fuel injection systems had reached the most reasonable compromise between reliability and ease to diagnose. Many of these cars can benefit from significant power gains from only deleting cats, as exhausts back then did not seem much optimised to "work" together with cats. There may not be as many exciting sports cars from the 90s as from the 60s/70s/80s, but luckily the F355 is one of them and to me an excellent compromise between the focus needed to maintain it correctly and the rewards of doing things right as experienced after each drive.

 

The 90's had all time greats for sports cars - 993 porsche, NSX, Vette zr1, Viper, Ferrari 512TR, 355 and 550, 3000GT, Z32 300ZX, FD RX-7...and those were just the big hitters. You had a great Miata, Prelude, Eclipse, MR2 etc. on the lower end. 1999 brought another couple of great cars in the 360 and s2000 but those could be considered early 2000's cars...

 

True. You forgot the Supra MkIV ;-)

 

Indeed!

 

If everyone could stop talking up the F355 as a desirable and collectable 'supercar'....until after I've bought mine, that would be really great.