The experience of opening your garage door, seeing the sun glisten, reflect and highlight the angles, is in a word, magical. We’d rather donate a redundant organ than part with our baby, because that’s what they are – children. And like children, you want to care for it because you know the better care you give, the better it’ll treat you back.

But it’s hard to love this hobby if it costs you your life savings–whether from depreciation, maintenance, restoration or some other expense. If you can purchase a car and sell it five years later for the same amount (hopefully plus tax), then you’ve done pretty well (provided the maintenance costs didn’t wildly exceed your expectations). Maybe your ride even appreciated by the time you sell it.

Petrollection was founded to help novice and enthusiast collectors minimize car collecting costs. The kind of cars that have four or five zeros after the first digit, not six or seven. We review a car’s future collectibility, provide tips on finding, maintaining, and eventually selling a collectible car. 

Our goal for collecting is to own and drive the car just enough so that when the day comes to sell, the sale price is as close to the original purchase price as possible if not higher. We recognize some people treat collectibles as garage queens while others want to drive and enjoy their cars to the fullest extent. But buying the right car no matter how many miles are driven during ownership will still be a collectible. However, the better the care that’s given over time, the better the premium that can be extracted at sale. We’ve seen cars with 100k+ miles that look pristine as well as low mileage cars that look driven to the ground. The difference in sale price can be night and day.

Our reviews are not a guarantee of eventual outcomes, but we try our best to help you make an informed purchasing decision, We hope you find the content on this site helpful for your future (s)miles.