PRICED OUT
If I were to tell you that old cars are expensive, you would probably reply with something along the lines of “no shit” — vocabulary dependent. It’s nothing new. I’ve seen the prices of everything climb a mountain bigger than Bathurst ever since I was old enough to understand the value of a dollar. And if you’re from a gen or two above me, then you’ll probably have stories of cars that sold for cents on the dollar now commanding six figures. If my fourth-form economics teacher, Mr Wilson, taught me anything, it’s that supply and demand are the two main driving factors of prices in an open market. So, given that currently anyone with land they can call their own is pretty much laughing all the way to the…