Well, also I think you have a lot of people who want a car, let's say a FGF and there is no way on earth they can afford to buy one already done. Therefore, they are willing to pay what they can afford ie: 5-7k for a junk box that they will "fix" not realizing that they never will actually "fix" it up because they can't afford the parts etc. As Yellowbird says, it all depends on what the car is, motor, oprions, origianl etc. You see so many cars where people put "30k invested, will sell for 20k" well that's fine and well, but if you spent 30k to weld a Camaro front end on to a FIrebird, well then you should have thought about the re-sell at that time. That's just an example. But nonetheless people do some weird stuff out there and think they can sell it for big money etc.