Close
your eyes and pretend it’s the late 1980s. Ronald Reagan is still in the
White House, people are spending money like they just printed it and collectible
cars are the hottest commodity around. Pontiac GTOs, Jaguar E-types, Shelby
Cobras, Ferrari Daytonas — if it was thought of as a cool older car people
were lining up to buy it.
Cars
that you almost couldn’t give away five years earlier were making a mad
dash for the $100,000 barrier. Junkers were dragged out of barns, slathered
with bondo, hit with a quick coat of paint and sold for $10,000. It was insane.
The undisputed kings of this madness were the late sixties big-block Corvettes,
particularly the 1967 L71 and the 1968-69 L88 and L89.
