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In another 50 years i wonder how many will survive.
I would like nothing better than to see all of those old cars get a good home but of those that survive and those found abandoned in fields how many will actually be able to be fixed up, registered and driven on a public road.
Some states already have owners wanting new registrations of older cars that do not have all the modern safety and pollution devices jump thru hoops and are working to get existing gasoline cars over a certain age off the road by giving owners incentives to turn them in to scrapyards which crush or otherwise make them un-driveable. I often wonder how many potential or actual collector cars went to the crusher with the California gas guzzler purge of a few years ago. You could not even buy parts from those turned in cars to fix another that might have been in otherwise great condition.
Another disturbing factor is more and more states are promoting electric vehicles to the point of passing legislation to outlaw new gasoline cars even being sold in another few years. With a lack of new gasoline cars being made or sold, the demand for fossil fuels will drop and more stringent environmental laws will up the cost to produce fuel so the price for a tankful (if you can find a reasonably close station and if your old car is still legal) will look like a small country's national debt. The $4-6/gallon gas of today will be a fond memory and look like a penny sale bargain.
I too see an uncertain future for the collector car as we know it and I am not sure it will even take 50 years -- but then I won't around to know when or how bad it will be.
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