In 1970, I paid $900.00 for a 1959 Corvette. In hind site, I bought it cheap, drove the daylights out of it, and sold it cheap. Then prices started moving up. In 1981, I paid $10,000.00 for a 1960 Corvette. It was a little nicer than the '59 I had, but $10,000.00 nicer? The market said so. I sold the '60 in 1986 for $14,000.00. In hind site, I should have kept it as that same Vette, today, would sell for $60,000.00
Did somebody get gouged? No. Nobody "needs" a Corvette. We pay willingly. Until the price bumps up beyond what we can afford to pay. And then we bitch that we are being gouged.
I want my '60 Vette back but the price gougers are keeping it from me. The price should have stayed the same price that I sold it for 30 years ago. It's not fair.