That's because people are idiots. You have people paying $1000 for a wallet. No I wouldn't, because while they were a common car back then, the amount that are on the road today justify the price especially since they are a 42 years old. It's not hard to find an Impala or Caprice with low miles that was grandma driven. I had a chance to buy one when I was looking for a winter driver. It was a 95 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon. The lady wanted 3K for it, it wasn't exactly low miles 120K, but there was no rust on it at all and was nearly brand new looking on the inside. That was a little high for me, plus she sold it to another guy a week after my dad talked to her. No one is getting a bargain on that thing. Like I said, it's not worth 25-30k and as someone else said it's a 15 year old car with 15 year old technology and power. You can get a Rustang GT 5.0 for that money and will go from 0-60 3 seconds faster, have a higher trap speed through the quarter after blazing through it in a low 13 high 12 seconds and handle a million times better and comes with Myford touch, which as bad as it maybe right now is much better than the radio in the B bodys. Regardless of how much we like these cars, the simple truth is that the new ones are better all around with a few exceptions. You can be a lover of these cars and acknowledge the fact as well. That's why we make improvements to them, we want them to be our perfect car and parts are cheap enough that we can do that, whereas that isn't really the case when it comes to newer cars.