What happened to the reasonably priced project car?

they have steadily been going up in price..

trucks and wagons have been and are still really hot right now.. vans are going nuts too these days..
Bought my running/driving 67 A100 van in 2004 for $900, used it for a daily driver, fixed things as I went, almost had it sold in 2014 for $5200 (but thankfully got cold feet) and now that it’s officially a money pit (with more money blown on it then I’ll ever get back!) have it fully covered for $12,000. The throwing of money at this pit is going nuts!:realcrazy: