Seeing as the Healey was about the price of Vette, I guess anew Healey
would cost in $80K plus range today.
I paid $500.00 in 1975 for my car $2260.00 in today's money. I worked a
lot of hours to pay for that car. Of course I have put around $30K into it
restoring it over the last 42 years
Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
_______ _______
(______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
(_________________________)
BT7 engine and disk brakes
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:07 AM, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting, although I'd say a similar car today would actually sell for
> around $45k. I did the same comparison with the bugeye's price of $1795
> and in today's money it would be $15k. I don't know what car you could buy
> for that today and would guess a modern day bugeye would be around
> $23k-$25k. This just probably shows that the cost of cars as a percentage
> of income has increased and we pay more up front for increased safety,
> mileage, lower emissions and increased longevity.
>
> Rick Neville
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:02 PM, i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> was curious how much healey cost in today's money
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>> Ira Erbs
>> Portland,OR
>> _______ _______
>> (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
>> (_________________________)
>> BT7 engine and disk brakes
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>> A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
>> Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words
>>
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