In case you need a new "source" for audiophile units.....

"Vintage" has taken on a deeper meaning these days.

A millennial or Gen Z see's something made in 80's as "rare"

You're right, isochronism, "Rare" in that context usually means the seller is the only one who was dumb enough to buy one.

I once sold a letter opener for $599. It was forged by Celebrimbor upon Mount Doom and smuggled out of Mordor on the wings of the Eagles of Manwe. Currently working on listing a Tesla wireless high current multi-phase amplifier hand wired by Tony Stark and recently acquired from the private collection of Jeffrey Epstein. Discerning sophisticated audiophile bids only, please. You will be the leader of the pack with this amp and receive a free Three Wolf Moon shirt to prove it.  https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Wolf-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A

Sure, trash a rare car to sell the radio. 

What's the world coming to?  ;) 

My grandparents and parents were travelers of the Road Not Taken. I remember Packards, Hudsons, Studebakers...and some good ones. My Dad had the same model Hudson that won at Daytona and a Studebaker Hawk designed by Raymond Loewy. If you want a journey down consumer product "Memory Lane", look up the designs of Raymond Loewy. Most households in the U.S. at one time had a Raymond Loewy product.......including a famous Cola bottle shape. I lived my adult life in a related "design" field selling furniture from the Bauhaus, the modern American post war period (Eames/Nelson et. al) and Denmark.

As has been written, our population has freedom of choice and rarely use it. All of us "Audio piles" know that for every decent piece of audio gear made there are thousands of bad sounding mainstream consumer crap that makes sounds...not music, but sounds. A Mr. Pearson referred to live music as the "Absolute Sound" most of us realize that the majority of Americans have the car radio and the Jukebox at the bar as their sound standard.

C’est la vie.