ARE YOU SERIOUS DUDE!? Put the crack pipe down!!

If there were no flippers there be no parts and most of the cars would be scrapped.
What do you think a junk yard is
a junkyard is a business that couldn't afford to gouge people ridiculous prices or they wouldn't be in business. Hell I've had them just give me stuff before. Not try to leverage every penny out of a set of somewhat rare manifolds... At that rate it would cost about $200,000 to build a nice hot rod but whatever. Go for it.