liken it too.
Bettern da ones in frnt...
Bettern da ones in frnt...
Consumer Guide : Cheap cars of '77 are ...
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The prices of the options, in today's money, can be kind of crazy. For example, the Pinto has a MONO AM/FM Radio option for $135.
An online inflation calculator I used says that's about $600 in today's money. $600 for a crap-tastic Philco radio, holy cow.
An online inflation calculator I used says that's about $600 in today's money. $600 for a crap-tastic Philco radio, holy cow.
pro rate the car and see that that's probably 30K$ v the 1,995$ it was at the time~
It's all relative, eh?
It's all relative, eh?
Using the same calculator, $2,000 in 1977 comes to about $9,400 today, not thirty grand.
what car can we buy at less than 10K$ ?
It's gota good radio?
Trouble here is prices matched wages then. No 1 struggled
to make a car payment unless buying out of their sensable bracket.
That's Y these rigs had 4, 5 motor options for the buyer, 3, 4 trannies,
vert, coup, sedan, wagon and an elcamino or ranchero model. The wage
dollar went further cuz items matched, otherwise Y would a car co offer so
many options (it was to try to draw more of the market, more buyers). Today it's
not even a close match for the majority. Back then housing was less than a 1/4 of
income. Now guidelines say 30% - it keeps going up. I gotta look out being on SocSec
which is "a fixed income" (semi-retired).
It's gota good radio?
Trouble here is prices matched wages then. No 1 struggled
to make a car payment unless buying out of their sensable bracket.
That's Y these rigs had 4, 5 motor options for the buyer, 3, 4 trannies,
vert, coup, sedan, wagon and an elcamino or ranchero model. The wage
dollar went further cuz items matched, otherwise Y would a car co offer so
many options (it was to try to draw more of the market, more buyers). Today it's
not even a close match for the majority. Back then housing was less than a 1/4 of
income. Now guidelines say 30% - it keeps going up. I gotta look out being on SocSec
which is "a fixed income" (semi-retired).
sorry, not following "new" market.
Real wages fall compaired to purchases (about 50 yrs now...
Whats today's pinto/vega/vedub bug cost now (I remember 1995$ last I looked '71/2).
I see alota fits & veras models, must B bottom of mrkt?
Real wages fall compaired to purchases (about 50 yrs now...
Whats today's pinto/vega/vedub bug cost now (I remember 1995$ last I looked '71/2).
I see alota fits & veras models, must B bottom of mrkt?
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