I remember back in the 1970's a friend of my brother had a 427 Cobra in a single car garage with a dirt floor. Even back then we knew it was a very cool car, but it seems so odd now that this mechanic living in a tiny house had a car of that quality. The other one I knew of at the time was owned by a wealthy young man in Santa Barbara. A fellow student at Cal Poly owned a Ford GT40 around the same time, and another friend had a Mercedes Gullwing. Likely that a good percentage their entire life savings now is equivalent to what they would have by merely hanging onto those cars. Other examples of course, but those kind of stand out to me. Even my old Z-28 would bring some serious change.