What I would like to see is a professional automotive rebuilding industry be formed.
For example, there aren’t any modern compact pickups like the Ford Ranger / Chevy/GMC S-10/S-15 produced today. A lot of these came with manual transmissions, roll up windows, simple climate control. Nice basic transportation with a lot of utility. Millions were produced and a lot of the parts were essentially the same for a decade.
I would think one could build a business around picking these things up for a few hundred, tearing them completely down, and rebuilding and reassembling. Parts are still plentiful and some of them are beginning to fall off the window for emissions testing requirements. They could even potentially be built to order, and also slightly modified with better parts to fix the known problems.
They’d still likely be at least $10-15k when all was said and done, but they’d essentially be new vehicle equivalents.
Yes, I agree, it should be possible, but the control freak liberals would consider them to be clunkers and protest them off the roads! What a great country this was before the liberals ran riot in every aspect of our lives.