You can't expect to get a premium for cars that aren't DONE period. If you don't clean up every part of the car forget the big money. If you start saying a car is clean and then add some BUTS forget it. Take Gary Plowman's National trophy winning convertible for example. He would get $25000+ for that car in a second.
I advertised on FGF(thanks) both of the coupes I sold for $15000 each. They sold and that's the market PERIOD. Both buyers loved their cars and still do. In this thread HD bought a project car for $15000 and had competition bidding. That's the market, PERIOD. What more proof do you need. You could say that the people paying big money are crazy but they got what they wanted. Don't you think the people paying whopping amounts for Camaros and Cudas are crazy?? Yep, car crazy, aren't we all.