We should all be hoarding 80s enthusiast cars

You don't have to look too far to see that anyone who has been snatching up modern enthusiast cars at auction and sticking them in a field or giant warehouse is pretty goddamned brilliant. In a few years, when cars like the Porsche 944 and first-generation Toyota Celica are near unobtainable and even harder to find in good shape, a former parts car may, in fact, be deemed worthy of restoring. 

Every now and again, I flag eBay sellers who have seen the winds shifting and begun stockpiling enthusiast vehicles that are still dirt cheap to buy off of Copart but can immediately yield big-time value in terms of the parts they contain. For years, J&J Auto Wrecking out of Ohio has been the clear leader in this arena, seemingly equipped with a sixth sense about which cars and trucks to buy while they're cheap. They definitely saw the trend towards Ford Excursions and H2 Hummers getting a second shot at life and began yanking those things off of auction lots left and right. Then it was the Impala SS, another car that was dirt cheap to buy when found in a state of neglect. The list goes on, and I actually grabbed a minty Recaro interior out of a rusty Mercedes-Benz Cosworth they had (which was ironically in better shape than my own car. 

Now, there's another player on the field, with the name goldat out of Houston, Texas. I just came across this outfit as their eBay page shows several first-generation Celicas, an Alfa Romeo Milano Verde, Porsche 944 Turbo, a second-generation Toyota MR2, and an early Volvo 242 Turbo coupe, among many others. Thinking about how much they likely paid for these cars and the treasure-trove of parts within each one makes me wish I had grabbed some acreage at some point long ago and started hoarding like these shops have done.