Should You Buy a Classic Car?

one, two, three, four! Rev up your engines! It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel Today I'm going to help you answer the questions, should I buy a classic car now lately a lot of my customers are thinking about getting classic cars because they say hey they're simpler they're easier to fix there's not a lot of computer crap on them and of course that's true on this Lincoln that's almost 50 years old the old carburetor went bad I was able to go and buy a brand new one the same day at a local auto parts store there's still parts available and there's only four bolts holding it on and that sure beats the heck out of working on a variable valve timing fuel-injected modern engine that can have thousands of dollars of parts instead of just a simple carburetor to make it run and here lies something that you should understand if you think about buying a classic car you want to buy one that there's parts that are readily available for like this Lincoln it's a Ford there's many common parts lot of them are still made and there's plenty of them lying around you don't want to buy a Ferrari or a Lamborghini where it's going to bankrupt you just buying the parts and let's face it modern cars we don't have any style they all pretty much look the same with plastic aerodynamic parts to get good gas mileage but really look there's no Chrome everything's just painted the same color as the car though things like chrome everywhere Landau roofs the old cars really have a style of their own and when it comes to classic cars you don't have to be a fanatic we're all the serial numbers match and you spend a small fortune making it exactly the same as it came out of the factory you can do classic cars economically if you want now sure they're not going to be worth what a pristine original showroom car is going to be worth but they can be a lot of fun and you don't have to throw out all that much money if you're careful now if you are looking at a classic car here's one thing to beware of don't buy one that's a Hulk of rust check for a lot of rust before you even think of buying that particular one now this Lincoln may be 50 years old but look when you crawl under and look around it's got one solid frame there's no rust on it at all now it's easy for me here because this is a Texas car so it doesn't have any rust so if you're really looking for classic cars you might take a trip to Texas or buy one that's from Texas that comes with pictures all around before you buy it to make sure it doesn't have problems now being from Texas this car still has a factory a/c on it still does work but don't expect to have working anything on most classic cars unless you're willing to spend a whole bunch of money just doing the whole air-conditioning system over or if you don't mind buy one without AC and put an add-on kit on now since classic cars are a lot simpler you can do a lot of the work yourself have fun get the enjoyment of doing that and still save a whole bunch of money when you really think about it because when you consider the price of a modern car versus an old classic that isn't a completely redone one it costs thirty forty thousand dollars for a decent modern car and then you can find classics all day long for a lot less than that and speaking of money if you buy brand new $40,000 car after five or six years it's worth maybe one third of what you paid for it but a classic car it might even go up in value over time a much better economic choice there so if you're thinking about buying something it has a little more class and certainly is a lot more fun you might think about buying a classic, and remember if you've got any car questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer Channel and I'll answer them as soon as I'm done driving this car.

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 4min 7sec (247 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 11 2017