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It's also worth noting that the Great English Britain has historically had one of, if not the, cheapest second-hand car markets in the world, due in no small part to right-hand-drive and a rabid new-car culture.
After the USSR folded, my grandad spent years coming to visit us in London from Kyiv, buying relatively dirt-cheap cars, sometimes converting them to LHD himself with scrap parts, then driving them back to Ukraine and selling for multiple times the purchase cost. It was the only work available to him during this time, and he earned handsomely.
My mum's also always had a taste for tangy motors, and ran a 1986 Toyota Celica Supra with a 2.8 litre straight-six that she bought in 1997 for £1000.
ectoplasmosis
Makes sense.
I guess also these things change. When I was younger 2nd hand cars were no were near as cheap as they were a few years ago - price for price, let alone from a purchasing power perspective.