This is true is everything a person owns is junk.
For many of us, these cars are hard to find and time consuming to restore. The newbies that watch the TV shows about restoration shops have a distorted impression of the time and cost involved in bringing an old car back to life.
Because my cars are "unrestored" ... with a lot of patina, too many think .."he doesn't know what he's got" !!! I've been on vacation a long ways from home and had 'em try to buy.
