$2500 is the new $500. Simple raising costs and inflation has done that, let alone the Clunker crap...
yes and no. I have read many articles and stories by people from the 50's to the 2000's and they all talk about cheap cars.
sure in the 50's they were 20 dollar cars, but under 1000 is common from the 70's up to the 2000's.
so that isn't really the reason on its own.
as for fixing cars, that is a myth.
plenty of things can be done on new cars without all that gear.
Weird one off things, or trouble shooting is harder for sure, but it isn't impossible.
And the older the cars are, the more prevalent the information is on the internet.
Now I wouldn't buy anything pre odbII unless I was prepared to gut the system and start again on the engine managment rather than deal with the early stuff. but that is different.
