Alpine value- on the way up?

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The most recent Sports Car Market price guide is forecasting a 25% increase in Alpine values in the next 12 months, saying these cars will out perform the market at large. The low / high- buy / sell price range for a car in #2 condition is $5,000 - $10,000. The investment grade remains a "D" - "cars that had the potential to be interesting but failed to be successful in the collector car marketplace". Still a bargain.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Certainly an 'all original' parts car, even an Alpine, will sooner or later be scarce enough to fetch high prices. The classic car market is booming given the immense popularity of TV shows like Chasing Classic Cars and Mecum Auto Auctions. The demand for 'barn finds' has gotten to the point of hunters not even dusting off their finds and instead just presenting them 'as found' to sell for record prices at prestigious Auctions.

I was at a Cars & Coffee when I overheard some guys talking about certain older model cars that years ago were sought out for the sole purpose of hot rodding them with a well known and common 'drop-in' engine/tranny combo for that time period and how those cars are now sought out not for their factory originality but instead for their resto-mod originality, crazy, but true.

 

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Alpine value

That was certainly true with the Henry J.