While many people lost their homes and businesses because of the pandemic, and plenty of others lost jobs and income, a substantial contingent have made out very well. There's a lot of money sloshing around the upper two-fifths of the income distribution.
Over the past two years some tech guys made fortunes, as did people playing middleman in the PPE follies. Then there's the federal "loans" and grants. And the ludicrous stuff like Bitcoin.
Next to that, place the savings many have enjoyed (or endured) by hardly eating out, never buying concert and sports tickets, and skipping vacation travel. Time is money, and that time has been spent surfing the innerwebs, dreaming of spending the money on cool ****.
Plus there is an actual shortage of actual usable new cars, squeezing the market.
It's kind of a perfect storm. Hence the inflation we see in out little clown car corner of the "automotive enthusiast space."
Reminder: I have a Spyder for sale.