Originally Posted by
RevolverRob
Depends on the Civic...If you bought a first-gen Civic Si, say a 1986 model, and maintained it well, it would be a decent investment....In the sense that you got a lot of use out of it, and simultaneously you could sell it today for 4-5,000 bucks (original 1986 price was about 8 grand). In terms of inflation, you lose.
That's just...not true, man. Sorry, it isn't. There are thousands more Colt ARs and Glock 17s made in the last five years than the total production of 1895 Winchesters and .44 Hand Ejectors combined. In a hundred years, if cased, explosive propelled, ammunition, is still a thing, Colt AR15s will be rarer, for sure and they will be valuable. But they are still unlikely to supersede the value of even older firearms. If you think a Colt LE6920 is going to be more valuable than a first generation Colt SAA in .45 Long Colt, in 100 years, then you're suggesting that individual firearms ownership in the United States will represent a mere fraction of what it is today. Regardless, use a real comparison. Compare the values of a non-functional original Colt Paterson or Walker to the Colt SAA. The SAA was produced in vastly superior numbers and was a vastly superior product. The Patersons and Walkers are still worth 3-5 times the amount the SAA is.
If you want to give your kids some tools they can cherish and use, an LE6920 and a Glock or HK VP9 would be a good choice. But lets not conflate heirloom quality with production quality. If you want to give them an heirloom that will appreciate in value like gold, go buy them a handbuilt double-rifle, shotgun, or a transferable machine gun.
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To carry the car analogy a bit farther. A Glock 17 is a like buying your kid a '65 Mustang in 1965, it's going to appreciate in value as it gets older, but it is still one of 500,000 made. A Colt LE 6920 is like buying your kid a '57 Chevy in 1957, it's going to appreciate in value, but it's still a 1957 Chevy. Buying you kid a handbuilt double English rifle is like buying your kid a 1930 4 1/2 litre Bentley. Yes, they made a few (720 to be exact). And yea...it costs a fortune in 1930 dollars (about 10,000 British pounds in 1930...so...a lot of U.S. Dollars). But today...they sell for about 150,000 pounds or 300-500 thousand bucks. In fact the cars are so iconic that companies reproduce clones of them that still cost more than a brand new Porsche 911...
When the frickin' replicas cost more than a current high-end object of the same type? That's heirloom quality and investment.
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ETA: My grandfather and father always taught me that wise investments are 1) Land, because they aren't making more of it. 2) Natural resources, because they aren't making more of it. 3) Toilet paper, because regardless of what happens people need to shit. 4) Food. Because people need to eat to shit. 5) Skills, because you can't get better doing nothing.
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ETA 2.0: Please don't confuse my statements on heirlooms versus production quality as saying you shouldn't buy the kids some LE 6920s and quality pistols. By all means, you should do precisely that. Buy them two rifles, and two handguns that are identical, and give them a pallet of ammunition to split. Because regardless of everything else the skills they get from quality working tools are vastly superior to money earned on an English double-rifle that never gets used. That said, if you want to give them something that appreciates in value, then definitely invest in rarity.
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