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Twenty-Five Affordable Classic Cars Kindle Edition

by Mike Gulett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The classic car market is exploding and values of certain models continue increasing every year while other models stay the same, or even decrease.

This is a classic car price and value guidebook for twenty-five affordable classic cars that the author believes are all interesting and desirable in their own way.

The goal of this book is to stimulate your interest and curiosity about the twenty-five classic car models presented here and to give you enough information for you to pick a car or two, start researching the model, and begin hunting for the right car for you.

There is a brief description of each model and the market values and prices of each model are discussed. The author also shares his opinion on the value appreciation potential of each model.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0090TRG9K
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 21, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.4 MB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 66 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #1,363,108 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #92 in Classic Cars (Kindle Store)
- #211 in Automotive Buyers' Guides
- #953 in Classic Cars (Books)
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Mike Gulett writes about classic cars, race cars, other cars that interest him and the people who made or drove those cars. He is also a car collector and writes from the perspective of a collector and an enthusiast.

He has more than thirty years experience in the technology business with fifteen years experience as either the President & CEO or the President & COO. He has worked for NCR, Intel, VLSI Technology, Virata and Ikanos in addition to a few other start-up companies.

Mike started publishing his blog, My Car Quest, in November 2010 and has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years where he still lives with his wife and a few cats.

My Car Quest has become one of the most popular classic car blogs in the world.

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Customers find the book informative and well worth reading, with one mentioning how it makes the world of sports cars accessible to everyone with an interest. They appreciate the car content, with one customer describing it as wonderful.

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Customers find the book interesting and informative, with one customer noting how it makes the world of sports cars accessible to everyone with an interest.

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ncgrifo
Twenty-five Affordable Classics--A Great Read!
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2012
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Mike Gulett has done it again! This latest work from Mike is great, another wonderful book that makes the world of sports cars accessible to everyone with an interest. Mike gives relevant history without going so deep that it would only be interesting to a marque expert. His range of suggestions is terrific. This is a must-read for anyone trying to decide how to enter the hobby, expand their collection or move to a new make of car. Job well done!

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Richard Truesdell
Twenty-Five Affordable Classic Cars
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2012
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As someone who is dipping a toe into the self-publishing waters myself, I read Mike's book from two perspectives. First was an enthusiast who has a life-long interest in affordable classics. From that perspective, the book succeeds very well as Mike has profiled a cross section of affordable, and in some cases, undervalued classics. I purchased the Kindle version of the book to read on my PC and it reads and presents well.

From the perspective of a magazine editor as well as from the perspective of a self-publishing, I learned some things that will help me format my first book. From the publisher perspective I think that photos are essential but they should be bigger in the presentation. And while shots taken at car shows work within the framework of the book, if Mike publishes a second edition, he should work to get better photos with less cluttered backgrounds. With that being said, this is probably an issue that won't bother most of the purchasers of the book but as a suggestion to Mike to make his next book even better.

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Issybob
Interesting cars
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2013
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An interesting book. But I thought that most of his choices in cars was about what most folks would choose.

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Sigma
Excellent reading
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2012
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The book was informative and well worth reading. It provides a quick bit on knowledge about some wonderful cars. I really enjoyed Chapter 21 on the Austin-Healy 3000. I owed one when I was in college, it brought back some great memories.

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turtlehead
very interesting book
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2012
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the book is very informative and an up to date in terms of car values.
its my 3rd publication from the author, i enjoy his work.

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Critic41
Pretty skimpy, and not really affordable cars in general
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2015
Pretty skimpy, and not really affordable cars in general, if it we're not a Prime freebee I would have been unhappy paying any amount for the book.

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Lionel
Classic Cars
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2013
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Strongly recommend this book to anyone trying to decide which classic car to purchase.
Book is well worth the money.

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ConcoursDriven
A True Eye Opener
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2012
Thanks to Michael Gulett, I now realize that many of the cars I lust after but accepted I will never own in this lifetime, can actually be purchased for a realistic price. I don't have to be a millionaire! This book is great. it's very simple to read, and very straightforward. Michael takes the reader through each car, and talks about their appeal, often explaining how much the car has appreciated in value since brand new, and gives the range of market values. He is smart to reference two of the most reliable sources in the collector car realm, Keith Martin's Sports Car Market Magazine/Price Guide and Hagerty's Cars That Matter Price Guide (The brainchild of my dear friend David Kinney). Mike starts out with the most reasonable cars and I will say, once I'm half way through the book, our view on "affordable" differs a bit, but that's just based on my current priorities. For those I know who'd like to jump into collecting cars but have been intimidated by recent sales results at classic car auctions and by dealerships, these cars represent an excellent way to buy something sexy, something fun to "arrive in" that is surely going to appreciate instead of depreciate. My particular interest is in both the Lamborghini, the Porsche and the Apollo, all cars I would love to own and take to shows. I'd be interested to hear about more cars that are as realistic to purchase as a new luxury car and in some cases, less.

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Paul Simister
A quirky little book about owning a classic car
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2014
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I'm hoping for a lot of Kindle books about the cars I dreamt about as a boy in the late sixties and early seventies. Paper books are so expensive because of the costs of full colour printing and the limited market.

This is one of the first and I bought it because it covers the Lamborghini Espada, Jensen Interceptor, Maserator Bora and Ghibli, the Iso Fidia and Rivolta and the De Tomaso Pantera and Mangusta.

I'm not a practical man so I have no interest in buying or restoring a classic car. I just like reading about them.

It doesn't bother me that the book's definition of affordable goes up to about $150,000 although I suspect that it will strain many wannabee investors.

As a reader I'd have liked more detail and more photos inside and out. I'd have liked to know about their conception and development, how well they drive and perform, common problems, how to find out more about how to buy, perhaps details of the owners clubs.

What we get is a brief informal chat, an assessment of the change in value between 2006 and 2012 and the author's opinion on whether the car is likely to increase in value in the future.

It's a quirky little book but as an armchair enthusiast I wanted more. If I was thinking about buying one of these fancy cars, I'd have wanted to know much more. If I was in the market, I suspect that I would already know more detail than this book covers. I suppose there might be some people who are prepared to spend $100,000 on a classic car who know little or nothing about them but I bet there aren't many.

I'm surprised at the five star ratings on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. I give it three stars based on value given by the price below £2.

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A book to spur interest in the classical car field but do not expect a lot of detail
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013
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As the author states in the beginning, this is neither a comprehensive price guide, nor an in-depth guide to the technical aspects of the cars described. The intended purpose is to give the reader a slightly higher appreciation for the field of classic cars and some ideas where to start.

So far, so good. However, this also defines a fairly narrow target audience - namely people with a reasonable amount of money set aside for a classical car hobby (with an eye to making this a shrewd investment on the side) but very little understanding of the cars themselves or of the field - i.e. first timers who have not taken the idea very seriously previously but need some basic information.

As to information, there is a handful of pictures for most models, a basic description of the car's history, the production period, some stats (not consistent across cars, with some getting more and others less), production numbers and a comparison of 2006 and 2012 values.

The term affordable is relative, with the cars featured going up to about US$150k, however many of those would also experience minimal depreciation (but very significant running costs). On top, the book appears somewhat US focused, with both the price information and the model selection reflecting this (the model selection also largely follows cars the author owned himself).

Unfortunately the book could also do with slightly better editing and with cleaning up of some mistakes (few but noticeable).

All in all an interesting start for someone looking at a potential classical cars hobby but beware that you will probably be very well served to do significantly more research before taking the plunge. For people already owning, or being seriously interested in classical cars, there will be little new / valuable information here.

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