For the price of a new car and the dealers cut, a lot of cussing and greasy hands, I could own a whole fleet of vehicles. I do, lol. Always have 1 or 4 spare parts cars of the same make/model to rip parts out of. Oh ya, and you could buy a small piece of land as a junk yard to store them all. Crazy what people pay for new or even used cars.
How much is a new one ton truck these days? 40-60k? Plastic tin can pieces of garbage IMO. Any day of the week I can go get under 100k mile 1970s class c doge RVs for practically free, because the camper sections rot out and no one wants them anymore. Rip it off with the excavator, add a bed + some sheet metal to cover the back of the cab, and your under a grand for a real 1 ton dually flat bed with 440 big block.
I laugh at big boss truck men that just took out a second mortgage on a shiny new truck that hardly ever does any work, and will dent if you even look at it.