65LoveAffair
Whovian
My cousin posted this on Bookface, and I had to grab it and share. It's not an A-body, but it still is a good window back to the good ol' days! Really makes me wish I was born 20 years earlier...
1969 Redford Chrysler Plymouth Detroit, MI ad
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chryslerfat
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I will take 2 please.
jeepsterhemi
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.....but you will have only one $50 rebate......
Couple more.....
chryslerfat
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That is fine although it is alot of money. lol
mikedevore
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Hard to believe prices were this low at one time.
Wonder what an average income was in 1969.
Wonder what an average income was in 1969.
RPMagoo
Just An Old Motorhead
-- Most states around $7K - as high as $10K in some states.
but then too, people didn't have $50,000- $80,000 annual household incomes back then!??? ha
Denvermike
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I lived in Detroit in 1969. The dealer in the first ad above was just a couple of miles from where I lived. I was an aircraft mechanic at the time and was making $5.00 per hour. Believe it or not, that was GOOD money at the time.
1970, I remember my father I n law had taught school ALL his life and was making $12000 per year. that's what $6 per hour? ha.... I had graduated college with a B S in Ag, working for farm credit, started at $7100 per year.
that $2800 for that 69 runner, looks SO cheap to younger people now, but that was not really the case so much back then. but in comparison to new vehicle prices in general today and todays income, and cost of living, as I have stated before< life was BETTER back then unless you found your *** was shooting gooks in the Delta!????
Ben Drinkin
Hey bartender!
That's over $10K per year!!! That was doing pretty darn good back in the day.. And a new RoadRunner was only about 25% of your annual pay. Today's 'hot cars' are what, $50K? That would be about $200K per year for the same standard. Did you know you were that wealthy in 1969??
This made me think, I was making 1, 2 and some times 3 dolors an hour in 1969, but way to young for a car yet
ScampMike
Despicable Damn Yankee
and so few had the foresight to realize that all but a handful of those cars would end up being collectible... as now days, people with that kind of "disposable" income typically don't care about saving the car and for people who would can't afford it.. "we" see it but can't reach it.. in 1987, all I wanted was a GN or a GNX because I knew what I was looking at, a future collectors car.. of course I had no extra $$, so even if I did get one I would have had to drive it.. so many cars, so little $$... :banghead:
jeepsterhemi
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yes but!!!!.........you still have to sit in front of the bank manager and convince him to loan you the money to buy that Road Runner......strangely, none of the bank managers were car guys and they were afraid that you ruined that Hemi RR within a year and have nothing or little to reposess...........maybe in some case they were right...........LOL
mguner
How many is too many?
Nine years later a guy that worked with my brother in law had a 70 GTX with a rod knocking. He said he'd take $50! I went and towed the car while he was out on the road (BNSF) and left him a note!
fratzog lover
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Who knew Sure Grip had 2 p's.
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