And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, August 11, 2023
Wonder what the value of just what we can see in this picture would be?
As a senior in high school I had an 8 year old 71Cuda. It was the base modal with the 440 and 4 barrel carb, 4 speed, and limited slip 4:10 rear. No options. It was sitting out behind a barn for a couple of years and it had 90k miles on it. I spent almost what I paid for it in parts. Tune up kit, plugs, wires, cap, all the filters, drums/brakes/slave cylinder, shocks, clutch/pressure plate/pilot bearing/throughout bearing, flywheel resurface, carb rebuild kit, intake gasket, shocks, tires, and a trip to the muffler shop for a set of new exhaust w/ mufflers. I even put seat covers on it. I flipped it in less than a year as gas had jumped from 52 cents a gallon to 79 cents a gallon. I could not afford to drive a car that got single digit fuel mileage.
One of my good friends in high school did the same with a ‘70 Cuda. He was driving home after a weekend camping trip, took a curve too fast and a tie rod snapped. The car sat in a barn until we graduated from high school and we both joined Army. I wonder whatever happened to it.
Can your foot reach your ass? If so than kick it. I still do for trading my 58 Apache. One spot of rust the size of the quarter. All else in good shape. Traded it for a 73 Camaro that I gave to my brother. Found out last it had rust issues.
What? Regular gas was $1.15 the week Elvis left for parts unknown. Gas hit $1.00 while I was still in HS. Less than 2 years earlier it had risen past $0.50 cents. Ten years earlier it had been $0.24 cents.
Anyway, that photo shows about twice as many than my younger brother had. Plus, he had all the MOPAR collection. Us three brothers and dad had quite a powerful collection.
The sticker price for most of those vehicles was somewhere around $3K. And the average worker pay was around $4-5 an hour. Now most blue collar workers make ten times that...or more. And the price for these vehicles in good shape is also ten times their sticker price...or more. The magic power of inflation.
My family was always Mopar. Had a 72 Challenger and a Plymouth Duster I dropped a hopped up 360 in when I was a young putz... lucky I'm still alive. Of course, had to get a newer hemi when they came out. So yeah, this picture gives me a woodie
Now? or in 1982? in 82 they would have been about $1,200 each my High school friend had a 440 4 speed Super Bee, think she paid $1,100 for it. Another had a 73 Trans Am, $1,400
I drove a 69 Mercury Cyclone Cale Yarbrough edition, that cost $275 friend had a 70 GTO Judge 400 4 speed, he paid $1,600
my brother had a 68 Mustang fastback, $950
In Carter America just a couple of years after the gas shortage lines, with recently tripled gas prices, and 17% mortgage rates and zero jobs, old worn out gas guzzlers that rarely saw over 11 or 12 MPG were the cheapest cars you could buy.
I am in love with all of them, they are mine I tells ya, MINE!
ReplyDeletePriceless
ReplyDeleteHo-ly fuck!!!
ReplyDeleteAs a senior in high school I had an 8 year old 71Cuda. It was the base modal with the 440 and 4 barrel carb, 4 speed, and limited slip 4:10 rear. No options. It was sitting out behind a barn for a couple of years and it had 90k miles on it. I spent almost what I paid for it in parts. Tune up kit, plugs, wires, cap, all the filters, drums/brakes/slave cylinder, shocks, clutch/pressure plate/pilot bearing/throughout bearing, flywheel resurface, carb rebuild kit, intake gasket, shocks, tires, and a trip to the muffler shop for a set of new exhaust w/ mufflers. I even put seat covers on it. I flipped it in less than a year as gas had jumped from 52 cents a gallon to 79 cents a gallon. I could not afford to drive a car that got single digit fuel mileage.
ReplyDeleteOne of my good friends in high school did the same with a ‘70 Cuda. He was driving home after a weekend camping trip, took a curve too fast and a tie rod snapped. The car sat in a barn until we graduated from high school and we both joined Army. I wonder whatever happened to it.
DeleteCan your foot reach your ass? If so than kick it. I still do for trading my 58 Apache. One spot of rust the size of the quarter. All else in good shape. Traded it for a 73 Camaro that I gave to my brother. Found out last it had rust issues.
DeleteWhat? Regular gas was $1.15 the week Elvis left for parts unknown. Gas hit $1.00 while I was still in HS. Less than 2 years earlier it had risen past $0.50 cents. Ten years earlier it had been $0.24 cents.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, that photo shows about twice as many than my younger brother had. Plus, he had all the MOPAR collection. Us three brothers and dad had quite a powerful collection.
To each his own i guess.
ReplyDeletePre-1970 Roadrunner has been my dream car for going on 50 years.
ReplyDeleteI had a '68. Loved that car.
DeleteI was going to say, during and after the “oil crisis “ you couldn’t give these gas sucking pigs away.
ReplyDeleteThe sticker price for most of those vehicles was somewhere around $3K. And the average worker pay was around $4-5 an hour. Now most blue collar workers make ten times that...or more. And the price for these vehicles in good shape is also ten times their sticker price...or more. The magic power of inflation.
ReplyDeleteMy family was always Mopar. Had a 72 Challenger and a Plymouth Duster I dropped a hopped up 360 in when I was a young putz... lucky I'm still alive. Of course, had to get a newer hemi when they came out. So yeah, this picture gives me a woodie
ReplyDeleteNow? or in 1982?
ReplyDeletein 82 they would have been about $1,200 each
my High school friend had a 440 4 speed Super Bee, think she paid $1,100 for it.
Another had a 73 Trans Am, $1,400
I drove a 69 Mercury Cyclone Cale Yarbrough edition, that cost $275
friend had a 70 GTO Judge 400 4 speed, he paid $1,600
my brother had a 68 Mustang fastback, $950
In Carter America just a couple of years after the gas shortage lines, with recently tripled gas prices, and 17% mortgage rates and zero jobs, old worn out gas guzzlers that rarely saw over 11 or 12 MPG were the cheapest cars you could buy.