Yea I know...
Gas is $3.00+ a gallon
A1 Steak Sauce is $6.00 a bottle
Movies $10.00
and I use to be able to buy a new car for under $3000.00
This is all for stuff that's made/sold in the 100's of thousnads.
Actually when you consider we make maybe 100 of this specialty item at a time and that's a few year supply... Heck it should be $75.00
So my suggestion is to step up to a new engine with a trade in deal at
http://www.mecoa.com/trade/trade.htm