Wow, what a nice selection of Shelby's for sale at dirt cheap price......
Oh yeah, you need to go back in time to 1976
Oh yeah, you need to go back in time to 1976
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Shelby's 4 sale, dirt cheap
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sigtauenus
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Couldn't afford them then anymore than I can now.
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Ponyman66
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I read one of the ads for a '66 GT350 listed for $3900. What frustrating memories that particular listing brought back. I know you said it was a '76 ad, but jump forward just four years to '80. We had a local paper that had a listing for a GT350H for $4500. The guy had two and wanted to sell one. It had a resto pretty much completed, but needed painted. Freshly out of high school and working as a rookie mechanic at one of the local Ford dealers I couldn't beg borrow or steal the money!!
BTW, as of several years back the seller STILL had the other GT350! Unknowingly I ended up working with him and the subject of the "missed deal" came up one day while talking cars. He shocked me after telling him about the whole thing by replying, "Yep, and I've still got the other car. That was me that was selling that one!" HOLY MOLY!!!
BTW, as of several years back the seller STILL had the other GT350! Unknowingly I ended up working with him and the subject of the "missed deal" came up one day while talking cars. He shocked me after telling him about the whole thing by replying, "Yep, and I've still got the other car. That was me that was selling that one!" HOLY MOLY!!!
1984 - near the end of high-school and I worked across the street from a bodyshop in Yonkers, NY. Owner had a 69 GT500 that was waaay in the back of the shop under and inch of dust. I used to say hello and ask about the car and finally he said "why don't you buy it"/ 10 grand. I was literally making $6 an hour after school, weekends, and summers, and told him I can't... that's a year salary basically, and he said "why don't you make payments?" Still didn't do it.
As the OP said, I couldn't afford one then, and can't afford one now.
Around the same time, me and a friend knocked on a door where they had a 69 Trans Am firebird in the yard. One of 697 of that first year TA. Same kind of deal- they said, "it's been there long enough, and I need the money. I'll take $5000". Same thing- might as well have been $5 million.
Back then, I fried my C4 in my 65 coupe, and that $300 took the entire summer to scrape together. Today's kids have no idea what it was like, and this was the 80s, not the 1930s. If the car was broke, or didn't have gas, there was no calvary coming. I had to wait until I could address the issue or the gas gauge.
As the OP said, I couldn't afford one then, and can't afford one now.
Around the same time, me and a friend knocked on a door where they had a 69 Trans Am firebird in the yard. One of 697 of that first year TA. Same kind of deal- they said, "it's been there long enough, and I need the money. I'll take $5000". Same thing- might as well have been $5 million.
Back then, I fried my C4 in my 65 coupe, and that $300 took the entire summer to scrape together. Today's kids have no idea what it was like, and this was the 80s, not the 1930s. If the car was broke, or didn't have gas, there was no calvary coming. I had to wait until I could address the issue or the gas gauge.
FWIW that first Cobra for 15K would be $59,568.72 Rate of inflation change: 297.1%.
Still a good deal by today's standards for what it is.
Here is a calculator.
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Still a good deal by today's standards for what it is.
Here is a calculator.
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Where is doc brown and his flying Delorean when you need him.
I was 2 years old when that ad came out. I don't think I had enough in my piggy bank.
I was 2 years old when that ad came out. I don't think I had enough in my piggy bank.
Hold onto your seats, Ladies and Gentlemen. In 2007, I submitted this article to MCA's Mustang Times, and it never was published, so I'm showing it here to the public for the first time. This article examines the asking prices of various vintage Mustangs and parts from 1976 through 2007, comparing them to the Consumer Price Index. All of the Mustangs examined appear to appreciate better than the Index.
http://midlife66.com/miscfiles/Mustangprices.pdf
http://midlife66.com/miscfiles/Mustangprices.pdf
Ponyman66
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Interesting info Randy. After looking at the graphs I guess the one I DIDN'T let get away was not only a good deal, but a GREAT deal! That was my '66 GT fastback I bought in '84 (and still have!). It was a relatively rust free, complete driving car with a factory 4 speed and equa loc rear. Selling price? $2300! How sweet it is! :thu