...my point is that there a 100's of pins out there that are going sideways in value and will probably never be worth anything, same as some cars, it would take an abundance of the appreciating top titles to arrive from nowhere for any effect to be seen on prices...
I read this and initially agreed but whilst doing some sideways thinking I have to reconsider.
Take for example a factory run 1970's car that was not a luxury car and had no cult following, that would rule out Mini's, Jags and a large number of Rovers and Royces. So I considered the worst car I have ever owned, a car that I looked forward to being in an accident in so I would either die and the embarrassment would end or better still it would die and I could move on.
I am talking about the Austin Allegro, a car my parents arranged for me to buy so I had no chance of showing off (I still found a way to make that beige car amusing but never cool). A car few people ever wanted a lift in and certainly no one wanted to trust going long distance in. A car that few people liked, let alone loved and so were unlikely to be a collectors item. A car most people hated.
Would you believe it, there a at least one dedicated web forums for it, which has at least two members, possibly more.
Car and Classic has a for sale section where prices start at £600 and go up to £2500.
Ebay has a classified ad for £1495 (and it is the desirable baby sick colour too)
There are loads of repro parts available to keep your turd-barrow on the road including air filters for only £998.99
available here. Though I suspect they are not selling many when you can buy a whole car for £600, take that air filter and sell it on.
What I am trying to say is, when something has survived past its expected point of use, it can then get respect for just surviving. People will start to buy them because they wanted old, they want to have nostalgia or because they wanted another thing but it cost too much. Then the price goes up, oddly this attracts speculators who have odd sense of humours. There has to be something in this because the Allegro was never a cool car, it wasn't a good car in the 70's and I doubt it has improved with age. Mine was dangerous in the 90's, with poor brakes, suspension and an engine that ate the points.
Not everyone who owns pins has it for the game, some have it for the looks, the nostalgia and the cool factor. If a pin survives, someone will buy it and as the number of pins from the past doesn't increase, their price will rise over time.
As for the world ending at the end of 2012, it is just time to get a new calendar.
) someone mentioned there were 12,000 in commercial operation in the 90's , they would have been turned around probably every three to four years or at least 50% of them would.
