You may think spending 6k+ on a pin is crazy, but then again there are those that think anyone spending even $500 on an ancient box with old wires to bat a ball around are crazy. It's all relative really.

I think the above two posts fit in *perfectly* with this thread and summarize it all very nicely! They both go to show how pricing is all relative, and how different people are willing to spend different amounts on the same things. For some they won't spend much of anything on a car. For others they will spend a lot. Different people have different comfort zones, what they can afford, and/or what they want out of their cars. Exactly like pinball machines, for every person that thinks it's insane to spend more than $1000 on a pin there will be others that are totally comfortable dropping $10k on a machine. To them it's worth it and/or they can afford it and/or they feel it provides that value.

Given how more and more people are being exposed to pins and retro in general it therefore shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that prices have gone up as it's not just hobbiests and dumpster divers buying them anymore.

Back in the late 90s when people were picking up pins for under $2k, that was a fortune to me, simply couldn't afford it so it was never even an option. Today though I can afford them so I guess I'm the inverse of everyone else where I couldn't afford them back in the day but can finally afford them today.