Although I can appreciate your realism, I kinda feel like your making assumptions about people you don't know.
You can't judge a book by it's cover and you can never tell by looking at a person what kind of connections, goals, or resources they have or don't.
Again, I do agree with you message and you're right everyone should be realistic with the resources they have available to them.
I am happy to spread Jamie's message about saving the bottom end of the what is left of these cars. If we don't save them no one will and i have personally found more fun in saving a junkyard dog than paying a lot of money for a polished car that is so shiny you have no idea how it was really built.