[TR] Used car ads from 1969
Jeff
fishplate at charter.net
Thu Oct 27 17:07:15 MDT 2011
On 10/27/2011 1:26 PM, Chip19474 at aol.com wrote:
> Wow....if we had the money/storage space/foresight. etc back then!!!
> Here's a few interesting nuggets to refresh your memory on what our cars were
> fetching in 1969:
>
> 1966 Triumph Spitfire, 2 tops, radio, heater, tonneau, wire
> wheels.......$1099
>
Being a Spitfire guy, I looked this up on the BLS Inflation Calculator:
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
$1099 in 1969 is almost $6800 today. So that's about right.
On the other hand, $1799 for the Goat is a little over $11,000 today.
That one sounds like a good investment...
Jeff Scarbrough
Corrosion Acres, Ga.
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