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Ah the good ole days!
From the May 1976 HO racing news letter for sale section, when 1600 bucks could get you a in the crate new RAV motor!
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Back when 1600 bucks was like 15,000 bucks.
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1964 Tempest Coupe LS3/4L70E/3.42 1964 Le Mans Convertible 421 HO/TH350/2.56 2002 WS6 Convertible LS1/4L60E/3.23 |
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Yup!
For me back then, yes it might as well have been 15gs!
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I think I was making around $2.40 per hour in 1976.
The more things change, the more they remain the same........
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In 1976 I paid $1,100 for my very nice complete, everything working entire GTO
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Gas was 25 cents!Tom
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By the time I started driving in 1975 gas was already 49 cents in CA.
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1964 Tempest Coupe LS3/4L70E/3.42 1964 Le Mans Convertible 421 HO/TH350/2.56 2002 WS6 Convertible LS1/4L60E/3.23 |
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I bought nos SD Heads from them back then.
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About $8500 in todays money
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66 GTO, 495, M22, Strange S-60 w/4.10 Sold new at Ace Wilson's Royal Pontiac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUHC-Z8xhtg |
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A page of Pontiacs from the April '84 issue of Hemmings.
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I sold this in 1974 for $1,200. I used the money to help assume a 6% mortgage. In the backyard of the house I was buying was a '64 Corvette roadster that I could've had for $900.
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According to the inflation calculator I used, $1600 in 1976 equates to about $7,977.95 in today's money. Knowing what performance crate engines cost today, usually cresting five figures, that doesn't seem like too bad of a deal.
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1966 Pontiac GTO (restoration thread) 1998 BMW 328is (track rat) 2023 Subaru Crosstrek Limited (daily) View my photos: Caught in the Wild |
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I averaged four different inflation calculators between $8300-8800 to arrive at “about 8500”. It will never be an exact calculation
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66 GTO, 495, M22, Strange S-60 w/4.10 Sold new at Ace Wilson's Royal Pontiac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUHC-Z8xhtg |
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Quote:
They run around $9k with ECM but are on backorder like a lot of things. |
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At the current rate of inflation soon $5k will buy you $1600 worth of goods!
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Will Rivera '69 Firebird 400/461, 290+ E D-Ports, HR 230/236, 4l80E, 8.5 Rear, 3.55 gears '64 LeMans 400/461, #16 Heads, HR 230/236, TKO600, 9inch Rear, 3.89 gears '69 LeMans Vert, 350, #47 heads: Non-running project |
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In 1st grade my dad used to give me a quarter to ride down to the gas station for a gallon of gas. 1971.
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In 1978-80 cigarettes were .48 cents
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The summer of 1969 I worked in a Mobil station that had a cigarette vending machine that took 35 cents for a hard pack of Marlboro. By the end of August the price went up to 40 cents. Everybody complained but nobody quit smoking.
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In the summer of '69 cigarettes were 10¢ a pack at the Base Exchange at Kadena Okinawa. But I was making about $200 a month.
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My Pontiac is a '57 GMC with its original 347" Pontiac V8 and dual-range Hydra-Matic. |
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Then they were cheaper overseas. In 1969 at the Vandenberg BX they were 15 cents a pack, but if you went to the base commissary and bought them by the carton they were 12 cents a pack.
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Mick Batson 1967 original owner Tyro Blue/black top 4-speed HO GTO with all the original parts stored safely away -- 1965 2+2 survivor AC auto -- 1965 Catalina Safari Wagon in progress. |
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