The Mecum Effect...Part of the Problem...or Part of the Solution???

I think it has more hurt the hobby than helped. After all,the availability of parts for A bodies isnt really that much better,but the prices are certainly idiotic. I call it the middle man effect. Every jack,jim and tom now thinks to buy up all the parts in thier local,which creates an artificial shortage. Then they charge whatever the market will bear and call it reasonable.

Gone are the days where you could buy a parts car for a couple hundred bucks from your buddy out in the country,because Mr.Middleman has already raped the countryside and overpaid for it all,forcing the prices up again.