I think there will always be a niche market for older items. I also believe that a lot of the things we buy as we get older are because of our memories of these items from our youth.
I have a 69 Dodge Coronet R/t and a 71 Plymouth Roadrunner. About a year ago I noticed how the late seventies Pontiac Trans Am's were starting to overtake several of the late sixties collector cars in value. I believe it is because that when men get to a certain age where they are more comfortable financially, and are starting to feel their age, they yearn for the things they admired when they were younger. No offense to men in their late sixties/early seventies, but the old cars I have are a bear to drive. Manual transmissions, no power steering, no power brakes!
One of the more interesting comments I came across, and it might relate in same to our modern day model trains, is that no one is reproducing the computers that came in the cars starting in the eighties. Unfortunately I shudder when I think of even the minor investment I have in MTH's DCS.
Of course, I could be wrong.
