Sheesh,  TriStars are cheap.  In 1958 Porsche stopped making the speedster.
A nicely crafted but quite crude by modern standards "sports car".  No
roll-up windows, bumpy ride, poor visibility, no crash protection.
Expensive to maintain.  Price one today.

I seem to recall vwmaster owning one of these trucks, tristar not speedster.

You could buy a refurb Unimog, rides worse than the tristar, verrrry noisy.
Fully refurb ~20K for a 1968.  Or a Series II 109 Landrover, fully restored
1966, guess...

It's a market thing.  If it's "too expensive" for you don't buy it.  Rare
has value for some.  Check out the going prices on NRA VG Leica
IIIGs...shocking, and doesn't even have a light meter.

Howabout a vintage Breitling Montbrilliant Navitimer.  Does 5000USD come to
mind for a watch you gotta wind every 40 hours.

Now how much am I offered for a Hewlett Packard TOP OF THE LINE laptop, only
three years old.  Cost new
3500USD, would 300USD be too much, yep too much.

Price a fully restored 1967 Westie.   You get the picture.

In Sonoma county there's a Spitfire for sale, not a Triumph Spitfire a
Supermarine Spitfire...wanna guess?

Or maybe a totally useless on the street 250LM Ferrrari...no four wheel
drive, no radio, no ac, no sunroof, lousy gas mileage on super premium.
wanna guess... check out hemmings motor news or the dupont registry to see
what rare cars sell for.   boggles ...

Orvis flyrod, made of old brittle bamboo, wouldn't dare fish it... does
1500USD for a non fishing fishing rod get to ya.  Waaay outa my reach.

A zippy neat syncro westie will bring a kings ransom in California.  An
unrestored HD XR750 brought 25000USD in Japan.

If you need a toy, price a Dessault "Paris Jet" and don't forget to dial in
the maintenance and fuel costs.  This is a sixties two place sports plane
makes any wooden sailboat look cheap.

Does a share of some interesting company that hasn't yet shipped a product
and has to date no earnings bring 75USD, you betcha.  If they go teats up
next week or loose the next level of capitalization  ...

De gustibus non disputandum est...

Boies for US Atty General.

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