Classics, now and later

"The increase in value of classics is not a bubble," said Rutger Houtkamp of the 'Houtkamp Collection'. And moreover, classics are more fun than modern cars.

But in terms of value increase:

So if you buy a VW - or Renault or Nissan - with tamper-evident electronics for a good price and put it away without modification, you will have a real rarity in a quarter of a century. And then it becomes more and more valuable.

An item that we will probably not be surprised about in the same quarter century, because by then we will all be chipped ourselves: The current interactive electronics in which the car and the smart phone are fully communicating partners with all flash locations, A2 tracks and of such. On the way home, your car will inform you that the refrigerator at home has told the butcher to briefly inform your car that the minced meat is running out.

And whether that is all fantastic or terrible?
Time will tell.

The 1900 cc five-cylinder Audi from one of our editors - he knows it is rare and may be offered - was 1, and 1983, when it was a car of the year, was also highly modern. He has something with wires and a light on the dashboard that checks the lighting after starting.

Recently a lamp appeared to be broken. That lamp was replaced, a job that was done in 1983.

But the warning light continued to report that a lamp was broken.

That problem was solved by just releasing the battery pole.
This is called "remains of the system."

And it works.

Nice and simple.

In the Audi from 1983 there is a tell-tale lamp for the lighting.
In a modern Smart Phone compatible car there are enough data carriers and data communication equipment that your mother-in-law can call you angry because she has seen that you are on the way to her without having bought a flower.

Our Flemish relation, the Boxer Whisperer, would be startled and mumble: “Terrifying. "terribly!"