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1. 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:44:03 -0500; I promised a lister that I'd scan in an image of a 1963 MGB ad that showed wide white wall tires. It was from the 6/63 issue of R&T. While I had it open I glanced at the 'Market Place' Ads. I'm now i; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00981.html (7,697 bytes)
2. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: "David F. Darby" <darby@tri-lakes.net>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:33:50 -0600; Hello Bud et al., I think you meant Mercedes 300SL, right? In 1968, we bought our 2-owner '61 MGA coupe for $750.00. Managed to hang on to it so far. Come to think of it, that was a fairly tidy sum o; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00990.html (7,656 bytes)
3. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:44:31 -0500; It's all relative to the money of the day. As one investor put it: "If I'd just put $2 million dollars into that deal back in 1975", he bemoaned, "I'd be a rich man today". - Tab; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00996.html (7,630 bytes)
4. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: "David F. Darby" <darby@tri-lakes.net>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:25:59 -0600; Forgot to mention, we bought the MGA from an R/T Market Place Ad. The last page of the 12/68 issue. It's the same car that was painted Austin Healey Metallic Blue, and, as MOWOG is my witness, was un; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01003.html (7,818 bytes)
5. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:01:29 -0500; Yes, indeed, it was intended to be MB, not MG. It's habit forming. To put the prices in perspective ... at the time you could buy a decent house for about $10,000, so the cars were about half a house; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01010.html (8,473 bytes)
6. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:40:57 -0800; Or look at current MBs vs house prices... S-Class: $90,000 House that an S-Class owner would be caught dead in: $1.5 million Does that mean cars are getting (relatively) cheaper? Actually, I don't th; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01047.html (8,210 bytes)
7. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: "Jeanne Blumberg" <rjb4@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:50:18 -0500; Where could you buy a decent house for $10,000 in 1963 though? They were at least triple that price in New York, and cars were about $3,000.; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01048.html (7,560 bytes)
8. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: ATWEDITOR@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:35:13 EST; << Where could you buy a decent house for $10,000 in 1963 though? They were at least triple that price in New York, and cars were about $3,000. >> No offense, but New York prices for anything, especi; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01054.html (7,968 bytes)
9. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:40:25 -0800; Well, it wasn't me that came up with that number. But I would think that in many communities that would be a reasonable figure for a modest home. I think my parents bought the house I grew up in (4 b; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01069.html (8,080 bytes)
10. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:57:10 -0500; $10,000 was not an uncommon price in southeastern Massachusetts in the early Bud Krueger -- Bud Krueger http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/ 52TD 77MGB; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01079.html (8,483 bytes)
11. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:36:55 -0400; Well, houses were cheaper in 1963 but not THAT cheap. I bought my first house just four years later - in 1967 - a very modest 1000 square-foot bungalow on a 40-foot inner city lot in Minneapolis for; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01081.html (9,412 bytes)
12. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: REasterby@aol.com; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:04:08 EST; I purchased my first couple of MGAs for less then $200 in 67 & 68. Ray Easterby 72 BGT orig owner 88 Xj 40; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01089.html (7,411 bytes)
13. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: ya632@victoria.tc.ca (Paul Nelson); Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:54:57 -0800; One brand new three bedroom on Mercer Island (between Bellevue and Seatle) cost under $12,000 in 1963.; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01105.html (7,627 bytes)
14. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Gonaj@aol.com; Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:14:13 EST; I think that once you leave the larger cities there were nice homes available for that kind of money. I remember that My folks bought a very nice home in a Boston suburb on an acre lot for about $14,; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01111.html (7,490 bytes)
15. Re: 1963 prices (score: 1): Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:02:33 -0600; Try El Paso, TX. The house I sold for $50,000 in 1993 originally sold for $7500 in 1957. It was worth $10,000 or so in the early '60's when $15,500 would buy a 3 BR, 1 3/4 BA, 2-car attached GA. CR; /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01137.html (7,507 bytes)

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