A bit of a common now days, moneys number one, long gone are the days when they would give Dad's truck to someone they knew would restore to new condition out of respect for the their father, now it's let's screw the last cent out of the old prick. At this this point I must say I am not a collector or a restorer I am just really bad at selling things, when I load up a Truck with Bulldozers or Tractors or old cars and go west to a vintage machinery rally or even when I take a old motor cycle to a vintage bike rally it is only about the people you meet and the conversations you have nothing more. $600 dollars for fuel to have a yarn why, why not you can spend that much for a weekend in the city and really speak to no one.
I have been keeping a eye on The Vintage Motorcycle Clubs tour of Bathurst for 45 or so years and watched the changes in value of what's collected and what's worth money, and it travels with the 60 year old's, what the 60 year old's wished for when they were teenage is worth the most when the are in their 60's and the price rises and falls either side, that Commer is at best worth 3 grand, those that are paying a million for GTHO's have about 6 years to get out in 15 years they will in my guess they will be worth say $40,000 in good condition, if you apply the the same value to car's that has been applied to motor bikes over the last 40 years and why would you think any different.