RE: only $38,999?!?!
Hey Schultz, thats not what I was saying, and I'm sorry if it sounded that way. First of all, I would be one hell a hypocrit if I called anyone shallow for hotrodding a car....I've got a '73 Country Squire that I bored, stroked and otherwise built up to 550 horse power, a 75 Cougar with 16,000 miles that sat in a garage for 30 years and the engine seized so the body and interior are showrom, but because I had to rebuild the engine, I just couldn't help myself from using Edelbrock RPM parts and aluminum GT40 head (that was probably dumb though), and I am almost done with a 79 Mark V that while I restored the body and interior to new, I pulled the 400 and out and inserted a 500 horse 429. I love these cars, but if someone else had a 3,000 miles original, I be drooling over it and recognizing how special it was..even if mine were a whole lot more fun to drive.
Also, I have two Mark VIIIS....my daily driver has a few performance mods too, so I'm not exactly opposed to that either.(and trust me, it is maintained...it has 210,000 miles but looks like 40,000 inside and out). The point is, anyone can do that, but once you do, and the more miles you rack up, the further you are from something that you will only see again in museums.
I guess my point is that your right...there are only a handful of us, and for those of use who have invested the time and money into maintaining a low mile museum piece, we consider it worth our investment, and get a little pissed when someone starts waving a bluebook in our face. Sure, a 1932 Jaguar is probably deprectiated down to about $12 by those standards, but give me a break.