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Several years ago my nephew went to an auction with me. On the way home we saw a 71 Chevelle parked on the other side of the street. Larry said "thats a cool "OLD" car. I did a double take and asked what "old" car. To me it wasn't old. It was a car from when I was a kid. Tom is right. The good stuff has always been good. It will likely be good for quite some time.
I grew up when "T" pumps were in use. They don't do much for me though. A Bennett 541, a Wayne 60, a Tokheim 36, now those are cool! The old visables and clockfaces are just too old for me. I can't relate to them. What will the hot petro collectibles be in 20 years? My guess us veteran collectors will still like basically the same things we like now. The guys that are 15-20 now will be getting to the point in their lives where they can really afford to start collecting seriously. I don't they'll be collecting plastic oil bottles. I think they'll be collecting video games, computers,dvd's. Some will collect aluminum baseball bats (they'll be using composite bats in 20 years), inline skates and the like. I don't think the future collector will have much interest in T pumps or plastic oil bottles, or even most of the stuff we find cool.
Bob