Author: Paul Duchene

Three collectibles to help you forget the doggy years.

America’s “Lost Generation” of doggy cars (1974–1990) officially came to an end with the introduction of the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 in March 1989 in Geneva, Switzerland. Suddenly, fast was good again and an 85-mph speedo was 100 percent too slow. The performance cars produced during the 1990s are new enough, safe enough, and well built enough to drive daily. Two decades later, their prices are bottoming out and collectors are snapping up the best. Here are some choice picks:

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Six tips to make it enjoyable.

Remember that old proverb, “Marry in haste, repent at leisure”? Spend too much for a car at auction, and those words will weigh heavier than your aching head the next day. And there’s the added bonus that your inanity may be memorialized on the Speed Channel. Auctions are the fastest of fast tracks—you are betting you know what you want, that you can recognize a car’s strengths and faults, that you know what it’s worth, and that you have the cool head to stop bidding at that point. The attraction of auctions is that there are rare cars to be had that are not found anywhere else. Auctions also let you avoid dealer markups or overly ambitious owners. Here are some tips to make the experience enjoyable. It’s work, but it can be fun, too.

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