Then in the last 5 years, my property valuation went up 41% (and my property taxes did too) because the whole freaking world wants to move to Texas.
And half of Texas moved to Colorado and drove up our home prices 75-100%!
I still find all the sponsored car shows, even the TEN stuff to be better entertainment than most of the other crap that's on T.V. Dirt Every Day and Roadkill are great and while they are "sponsored" they're still not the Shills that the guys on Horsepower/Xtreme/Detroit/Trucks! over on Spike TV are.
HotRod TV aren't the only ones doing Gbodies on TV; Detroit Muscle is currently building a Regal, CarFix (Lou Santiago) is building a GN and I'm sure we'll soon see more and more weekend cable TV "car shows" doing over the top Gbody builds. A big part of that as mentioned earlier is a lot of the desirable late 60s/early 70s stuff is getting harder and harder to find and prohibitively expensive. A comparable A-body to my G-body would be 3-4x as expensive (as of today). The downside to this exposure is that the prices are going to trend right where Chevelles went.
The other side of the coin is that those of us who have fond memories of these cars are getting older and now have the means to buy and build them into one of their dream cars. Buick GNs, T-Types, Olds 442s, Monte SSs & Grand Prix 2+2 along with IROCs, Formulas and 5.0 Foxes were considered anemic junk and undersized small cars to the Muscle Car guys that grew up driving them in the 70s. As I've heard people in my father's generation call them a "real disappointment". But to us Gen-X'ers that owned or wanted these cars in the 80s and 90s we thought they were cool and now we want them again (on top of it most of know how to turn our Gbodies into powerhouses that will embarrass many of those old 60s/70s cars).
Even though those Hot Rod guys are using free parts from Summit/Jegs etc. that would cost us thousands, there's still plenty of used stuff out there for a fraction of the price. Locally I just found a fresh built TH400 (beefied up not a stock rebuild) and a GearVendors O.D. (used and not rebuilt) for under $1000 (for both units). Out of a Catalog you'd be looking at close to $4K for those pieces.