Offensive to sellers but have people gone over the cliff on Car values

Just a thought. Is it really fair to directly compare the price of a new car to an old one when new? Even the hot cars of the 60s must in reality have cost much less to build than, say, a hellcat, or even a challenger r/t. The engineering that goes into a new car is undoubtedly far more involved than our classics. Shouldn’t the price necessarily reflect that?

Moreover, for project cars, aren’t their bloated prices a reflection of the work and parts that go into them? I may think that the $3000 rusty a body is really worth closer to $1000, but if I bought a shell for the (cheap) price of $1000, the parts and labor required to bring that car up to the same level as the $3k one is likely to exceed $2k. 8 3/4 rears alone can’t generally be had for less than $1000. Just 2 cents from a guy who can barely afford his rusty but much loved junker.