And people"s wages was $100 bucks or so per week add inflation cost of
living increases. etc etc Prices have stayed the same !!!
P.V.R
----- Original Message -----
From: <LMR356@aol.com>
To: <Tombread@aol.com>; <OkerWR@navair.navy.mil>; <greenman62@hotmail.com>;
<jrosevear@thinkinginvestments.com>; <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: Vintage Racing...it's only relative
> In a message dated 3/29/01 3:51:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Tombread@aol.com
> writes:
>
>
> >
>
> Here's a little trivia in response to the above:
>
> A 1964 356C Porsche SC Coupe, POE Teaneck, NJ, listed for $4.750.00*
>
> Although that Porsche looks pretty cheap thirty-seven years after the
> fact....not too many "normal people" could really afford to pay $4,750.00
for
> a mid-range sports car. MGB's and TR4s were selling for $2,000 less,
while
> the Aston Martins and Ferraris were "only" selling for $7,500.00 more!
> Yikes.... I'll take a half a dozen 275GTBs ...and put them away for a
rainy
> day! Perhaps the real measuring stick is that 100 octane, leaded gas
was
> $.40 a gallon....
>
> Lee Raskin
> Brooklandville, MD
> Arnolt-Bristol and 356ers
>
> * Source: N.A.D.A Classic/Special Interest Appraisal Guide 1/2001
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