Wow what a weird thread that manages to cover a number of areas.
First, while the 100K in labor seems high, it easily passes the sniff test to me. IF this was farmed out to one of the well known shops then I can easily see a labor rate of $120/hr or more. Let's round that down to $100/hr. $100,000/$100/hr is 1,000 hours. Really that isn't out of line for stripping it down, cleaning, sand blasting, machining, painting, pressing in new parts, reassembling, trouble shooting etc. If you allow 120/hr then it's 'only' 833 hours, even more believable.
As for the vehicle. Like most here I don't get it for that price, I also just don't get it. I do understand the attraction of an older vehicle showing the scars of a life well driven, real patina, with fully restored and or upgraded mechanicals. But I don't understand this level of, well I wont call it patina, to me its just it's effing trashed and it ruins an otherwise interesting build, but to each their own.
On the people railing against the rich and wealthy. I may be pretty hard core left/democratic. And I've stated publicly here before that while I as an individual am carful to minimize (legally) what I pay in tax, I honestly believe as a citizen of the United States that someone in my position should be paying more into the country to take care of those less fortunate or able. Having said that I'm getting really tired of people complaining and bitching about wealthy people. I happen to know quite a few people with very high net worths (I'm not one of them), and despite the current popular opinion, most of those are self made and started from very modest means. I know and have met a fair number who've inherited wealth, but the vast majority of those are spending it faster than it's increasing and they will be the last generation to enjoy it. But guess what?, they aren't exploiting anyone except their own offspring, they are putting money into the economy at the expense of their own future. There are a few who've inherited, or come from, old money who are not spending fast, and the one thing I can say about them is that you'd never know that they are particularly well off. Personal experience breaks these people down 70% self made, 25% inherited and spending fast, 5% inherited/old money that will continue for generations.
I know it's popular to blame wealthy people for the worlds problems and portray them as money grabbing exploiters of their fellow man (as in human, don't read in gender). Sure there are a few of them, but they are the ones who get the press and are vilified. Most wealthy business owners treat their workers with respect, and have helped many of them raise their standard of living significantly.
Finally, being a millionaire isn't that big a deal these days. 8% of people and over 10% of households are millionaires in this country today. YEs that's skewed towards older people, but on average it takes 28 years to become a millionaire, you shouldn't expect to reach the finish line before you start. People need to stop equating millionaires with Bezos, the facepage droid, Bill Gates etc. They aren't even the 1%, they're the 0.0001% and by the time you reach that stage the money is basically virtual not real. If anyone of those people tried to spend even 1% of their own net worth tomorrow, they'd need to sell so much stock it would probably tank the whole market. They don't have a Scrouge McDuck pile of gold in their basements.
OK, OK, I'll calm down now. Rant over.