- 1. Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Ed & Kris Curtis <curtis@hayburn.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:22:21 -0500
- I just picked up a magazine in an antique store called Cars & Parts. The issue that I bought was for February, 1973. In it were some interesting items for sale: MGTC - a fine original example in regu
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01406.html (8,279 bytes)
- 2. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:40:25 -0600
- See! They hold their value! Still worth $2,000 twenty-five years later! Oh oh. Here comes the MGA crowd settling in, their dinosaur tails wagging gently behind them. They make a pot of tea, do some q
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01408.html (8,222 bytes)
- 3. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: "John Swanland" <swanland@cato.wesley.vic.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 09:13:34 +1100
- What stories do the old How about a TC for US$2,000 in 1973. Shipping from England to Portland, Oregon was included in the price. I drove it from the docks to Spokane, Washington. Still have the car
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01417.html (8,221 bytes)
- 4. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Kelsey <kelsey@value.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:11:39 -0800
- I thought that my 52 TD was a bargain at $995.00. But it did have 53,000 miles on it. I still have the car, and it now has 180,000 miles on it. Another OLD GUY!
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01418.html (8,885 bytes)
- 5. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Brown <mgrick@ptd.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:04:46 -0800
- The first New car I ever bought was a 67 Triumph Spitfire which I bought in Paris for $1,800 - thats without any taxes and duties as I was in the Diplomatic Service. Drove it in Paris for a year and
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01425.html (9,409 bytes)
- 6. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: "John Swanland" <swanland@cato.wesley.vic.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:19:09 +1100
- Wonder if it's the TC I now have. I paid $2000. I think I bought mine through an ad in Cars & Parts from a dealer in England called RJB Duce. He used to advertise in those magazines. John Swanland M
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01430.html (8,385 bytes)
- 7. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Ed & Kris Curtis <curtis@hayburn.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 21:12:25 -0500
- John: The full add reads: MG TC, a fine original example in regular use, $2,000.00 delivered to any port U.S.A. Photographs, details. Roland Duce, 58 Brook Street, Wymeswold, Nr. Loughborough, Leices
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01431.html (8,817 bytes)
- 8. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: pat bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:47:18 -0800
- Actually a lot of things are cheaper now if you consider what the average pay was back then.I was making around $150 a week so a $2000 Gt would cost me 13 weeks work Today i make $825 a week( Thank y
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01432.html (9,721 bytes)
- 9. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:29:27 -0500 (EST)
- Old guys on the net??? Hmmmm. I guess I do fit that description. :-( Those are pretty typical MG prices for that period. It wasn't until the late 1970s that prices began to go through the roof. I bou
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01455.html (9,651 bytes)
- 10. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:32:21 -0500 (EST)
- Yeah, I remember him. His cars were never as advertised, but you got what you paid for... -- Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271 Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO (daily driver) fol
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01457.html (8,286 bytes)
- 11. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Cook <mpcook@highaltitude.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:17:08 -0700
- I bought my first MG in 1971. It was a '61 MGA in very good condition with about 45k miles and I paid $500. It seemed like a lot at the time (I made $7,000 per year). My next MG was a 1960 MG Midget
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01461.html (9,738 bytes)
- 12. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 10:12:36 -0500 (EST)
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- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01492.html (9,297 bytes)
- 13. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Houser <mgs4dave@warwick.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 17:19:11 +0000
- Well, I don't know if I qualify as "an old guy" but I picked up my 53 TD two weeks after we were married back in 1964 for the princely sum of $450. It was in a Rambler dealers lot. Took most of our
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01502.html (8,154 bytes)
- 14. Re: Prices of cars in the old days (score: 1)
- Author: BobMGT@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:18:02 -0500 (EST)
- How about prices of parts in the old days. I just came across an old Moss catalog from 1972. Get a load of these prices: MGA 1500cc factory rebuilt engine complete with head, flywheel, water pump etc
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01513.html (8,120 bytes)
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