Auto Trader-Check Out Some Of These Old Ads
 

I bought this publication every week for years. These are a few of the ads I kept.

Second batch.

Third batch.

Excellent - Thxs for sharing these!

Great stuff. So what year(s) would these have been from?

I graduated High School in 1986. So these ads probably range anywhere from 1983 to 1988. Will probably post a few more tomorrow.

Bring Them!

Great reading and good to see what those cars looked like back then - prior to the over restore now all the rage... ;)

Posted one of yours at this thread as post # 4361 http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...71844&page=219

I can't resist chipping in here with a few of my old Auto Trader ads from the Northwest. BTW, the lower two cars I still own (the '72 turned out to be a '71).

no title, no prob

Yeah, back in the day, no biggie. But today, BIG problem.

I saved a few from the early 80s. There were some good buys.

Fourth batch.

Fifth batch.

Wow, if these cars were that price today. :)

Very first photo posted shows title page: Week ending May 22,1985.

Damn, those were the days!

While reading these vintage FS ads makes me wonder how those sellers (any here on PY forums?) feel now looking back and seeing the current Televised Auction Sell For $$$'s? :doh:

I bought a stack(ok a couple large stack that the girlfriend asks me what I'm doing with every time she cleans the house) of old pontiac magizines from a guy a couple years ago and many are from the late 1980's time frame. I was looking at one last night where they have some classified adds in the back and saw and mint 1968 numbers matching 400 convertible for $9000. I'm sure that was a mint back then but today you would have 4 times that. Also there was an article talking about all these early 1970's gto's people were buying for under $1k. The articles in those older magizines were writen very differently than the new ones. If I get a chance I will scan it in.

Thank you for taking the time to scan those in, they were great!

There are some folks that actually DON'T want people to see original ads. There are those high end collectors that display their car(s) as all original, low mileage examples, but sometimes someone finds an original ad from an old Hemmings Motor News for the actual car, and it had different options or a non-original motor. As the decades went by, cars changed hands, and magically the car ends up as an "all-original numbers matching car with original paint".

I found an ad for a 1969 Trans Am convertible from a Pontiac dealer in 1970, out of the Pennsylvania area.

Still some pretty decent $ by mid '80's standards. Thanks for sharing.