Valuation - DeLorean is "one of the hottest collector cars"

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Article talks about prices rising then ends the article with this.

More recently, and much closer to reality, a 1981 DMC-12 sold for $23,100 at RM Sotheby’s Auburn Spring Auction in May."

That's the price of a Honda Civic.

I think that sentence was eluding to the previous statement that someone paid $541,000 for a BTTF survivor car. You do see a lot of cars listed for sale in the high 30s and 40s. I would expect those to be excellent cars. Check out the completed listing on eBay. gives you a good idea of what cars actually sell for. a running and driving car with issues is probably in the low 20s, maybe that car was one of those.