Well, here's how I looked at it. I was buying from a private collector who'd had the thing out on the road and felt that everything worked. I'd love to go to a GL auction and pay $800 for a running truck like some have, but short of scrap vehicles or those in Hawaii or Guam that doesn't seem possible anymore.
Most of my nursing school classmates have gone out and bought new Expeditions or Avalanches for tens of thousands of dollars, so in my mind I'm ahead. I've paid less than $4,000 for a truck that will take me about anywhere (slowwwwwly), has a certain 'cool' factor, is made in the USA, and is recycled' in a sense.
Just look at it like I do - I'm able to carry more cargo than the guy with the shiny Hummer H2, namely the $80,000 I DIDN'T spend on my vehicle...