I'm taking them at face value: the LOW average retail value of a driver, not a parts car, is 5 grand.

Who here would be willing to pay $5000 for a "very poor amateur restoration"? In my book, that truck's value would top out in the neighborhood of maybe 1 or 2 thousand bucks, nothing more. I can't get my brain around that truck averaging $5000 retail.

I dispute their number and will gladly sell a truck fully restored by me, a very poor amateur doing a very poor amateur job, for $5000. (You wouldn't want it.)

Bill