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"69" Car Prices

footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
edited November 2008 in General Discussion
I'm a nut. Car nut. Gun nut. Found a 69 new car price guide and
Thought I would share some
U140 69 Ford Bronco pickup 170 cu in 6cyl 3sp man sug ret $2997.21
13667 Chevelle Malibu Convertible 200hp 307 v8 3sp man rt $3033.75
ss396 option $347.60 375hp 396 TurboJet w/aluminum heads $647.75
19437 Corvette coupe 300hp v8 3sp man sug ret $4912.75
Engine,Special Corvette 427 Lpo-L88 sug ret $1032.15
RM27-Convertible Plymouth Road Runner Sug ret $3456.00
Engine-426 CID 8 cyl. 2-4Bbl Hemi Sug ret $813.45
And all courtesy the UAW[;)][;)]
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  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    gasp!!![:0] how did people afford those ridiculous prices???

    man[V] the times, they sure have changed!...i wonder what the average wage was back then?..i know my dad was working in a saw mill and bringing home around $90 a week...good bux for those days.
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  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
    I think my grandmother purchased her new 1965 Impala for $2800 with the 55 Bel Air Chevy wagon trade in.
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    I had the original sticker for my 1969 L89 RS/SS camaro convert..it was 5600 bucks new...the options did add up...then again I sold it for $34000 in 96 and it would be worth 100k at Barrets now
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I remember correctly, the sticker on my 1970 Z-28 Camaro was right at $4400 and change! [:0]

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,518 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have the bill of sale for my first car. 66 Impala 2 door hardtop. Gramps traded a 61 olds for it.
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    Scott That must have ben a nice ride. Looking at the book I noticed
    the Big engine as a 396 375HP w/aluminum heads for $770.05
    Oddest option I saw was "Skirts,fender-$31.60"
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My '64 Ford Fairlane 500 with the HP 289 engine was around $3400 and my "67 LTD with the 390 was listed at about $6800.
    What's next?
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My 1969 Corvette was $5600.00

    The 1972 K20 pickup was $4800.00
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • SpartacusSpartacus Member Posts: 14,415
    edited November -1
    any listed prices for 1970/71 LS-6 chevelle?
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I just got my SS Statement, no wonder I couldn't afford a car.

    1974 I made a grand total for the year of $3,317 But that was for a PVT in the Marine Corps.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought Ford, GMC, and Dodge made those... And just hire over paid assembly line workers from UAW to but them together, well if that's what you want to call what the UAW did..The dealerships always had to go back and fix The UAWs screw ups
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  • 41 nut41 nut Member Posts: 3,016
    edited November -1
    In 1974 I bought my first new pickup. GMC 8'bed, no rear bumper or radio for $2295. Wish I could have bought my 2003 one for the same price. Cars were cheap back in the 60's. $50. for a 57 Chev. in 1965.
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of the biggest contributing factors of skyrocketing car prices was the 3year/36,000 mile warranty ...

    People started bringing in their cars for every squeak, rattle and noise ... the 350 pound gal who's seat cover would split because she was just too big for the seat would get 3 new seat covers (instead of 1 under the 12/12 warranty that preceded it)
    Although people wouldn't have paid to have something fixed if it came out of their pocket, if it was free they wanted it.

    Kind of like what what would happen if we had free National Health care ...
    If you really desire something, you'll find a way ?
    ? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In 1974 I bought a new Blazer and it was 5700 and it was a plain jane.
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by footlong
    Scott That must have ben a nice ride. Looking at the book I noticed
    the Big engine as a 396 375HP w/aluminum heads for $770.05
    Oddest option I saw was "Skirts,fender-$31.60"

    yes it was and I was a fool to sell it
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  • 1FMJ1FMJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1969 I was earning $3.25 per hour.1995 I was earning $232 per hour Paid $1975 for a 1966 Dodge polara special order full blown 440 with 4 speed payments were $66 a month
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  • BOBBYWINSBOBBYWINS Member Posts: 7,810
    edited November -1
    Sticker on my '73 Charger was $5000 and change.

    Bought it for $4000 when the '75's had already come out.

    Actually,I traded in my candy apple red '69 Mustang and was allowed somethin' like $500 on it.[:(]

    I need my * kicked.[V]

    BW
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  • wallbangerwallbanger Member Posts: 181 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first car was a 57 chevy ,in 1964 $435.oo payment $35.00 ,worked for Coca Cola $37.50 a week. Single with money to burn,A friend of mine asked me one day what I made with Coke when I told he said "how do you get a good job like that" he was making $20.00. "THE GOOD OLE DAYS" I traded my chevy to a 59 VW I need an * kicking !!!!!
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  • zinkzink Member Posts: 6,456 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dan kelly
    gasp!!![:0] how did people afford those ridiculous prices???

    man[V] the times, they sure have changed!...i wonder what the average wage was back then?..i know my dad was working in a saw mill and bringing home around $90 a week...good bux for those days.


    My dad used to brag that in 1969 he made $29,000 that year.

    Lance
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by zink
    quote:Originally posted by dan kelly
    gasp!!![:0] how did people afford those ridiculous prices???

    man[V] the times, they sure have changed!...i wonder what the average wage was back then?..i know my dad was working in a saw mill and bringing home around $90 a week...good bux for those days.


    My dad used to brag that in 1969 he made $29,000 that year.

    Lance

    thats huge money...when you think he could have bought 5 top of the line cars with his yearly income and now it would take a whole year to buy a decent car
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  • zinkzink Member Posts: 6,456 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by scottm21166
    quote:Originally posted by zink
    quote:Originally posted by dan kelly
    gasp!!![:0] how did people afford those ridiculous prices???

    man[V] the times, they sure have changed!...i wonder what the average wage was back then?..i know my dad was working in a saw mill and bringing home around $90 a week...good bux for those days.


    My dad used to brag that in 1969 he made $29,000 that year.

    Lance

    thats huge money...when you think he could have bought 5 top of the line cars with his yearly income and now it would take a whole year to buy a decent car


    And think, now it takes that much just to get by!
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    Zinx-29thou. Thats more than I made in 07 working for the UNION[:(]
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,633 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I bought a new '69 Vette coupe. 350/350, 4 spd, a/c, pw, tilt, etc
    $52xx.00 - and I got my employee discount to boot!
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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  • PearywPearyw Member Posts: 3,699
    edited November -1
    I bought a new Challenger R/T Special Edition 1970 with leather seat for $4600.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I think its pretty much all relative...the sticker on my '08 Chevy Colorado was $21,000. I make about $45K +/- a year....so what was the "average wage" in the era of a $4000 car? $8000-10,000?

    Sure, everything COSTS more, but we get PAID more.
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    I was in High School in 1969. I worked on the Docks as a Longshoreman, Casual hire. The job paid $3.56 per hour, in cash at the end of each shift. I worked on Holidays for the big pay (double time and a half), and on weekends for Time and a half. I was the richest (working) kid in my high school.

    In 1970, We/I bought a brand new Datsun (now Nissan) pickup for $2040, Tax, License, Delivery charges, out the door. First and Last foreign car I ever owned.

    Yep, prices were different.
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  • PA ShootistPA Shootist Member Posts: 693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Prices are indeed relative. In 1969 I was a public school teacher and was making $5200 per year, which was $300 above the state-mandated minimum school teacher salary. I no longer teach, but the average veteran school teacher today in the public schools arpund these parts makes ten times what I made back then, and the average cars cost about ten times as much now as they did then. Gun prices just might have been relatively higher then, as a percentage of income, going by the 1969 Gun Digest prices. I always worked two jobs, in order to feed my hobbies; I was also a gun nut and a car nut.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bought a 1966 custom cab, V8, auto, big hubcaps, whitewall tires, 1/2 ton Ford for $2,700.00. My 69 Impala, 396, two door hardtop stikered at $3,800.00. In 1962 I sold a nice 1955 Chevy convertible for $400.00. I need my * kicked.[:D]
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  • BlairweescotBlairweescot Member Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey-

    how much was a '69 Buick GS400 Stage 1 Convertible? I'm guessing 3400ish
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  • BlairweescotBlairweescot Member Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by HandLoad
    I was in High School in 1969. I worked on the Docks as a Longshoreman, Casual hire. The job paid $3.56 per hour, in cash at the end of each shift. I worked on Holidays for the big pay (double time and a half), and on weekends for Time and a half. I was the richest (working) kid in my high school.

    In 1970, We/I bought a brand new Datsun (now Nissan) pickup for $2040, Tax, License, Delivery charges, out the door. First and Last foreign car I ever owned.

    Yep, prices were different.


    Absolutely!

    I've been a muscle car guy since '89 although I keep telling myself I'm out of the hobby. I still have my 1970 Buick Skylark Custom/GS455 clone convertible

    In 1989 it cost me 2850 bucks. New it was a little over 3100 I think; it was a mandatory 350 cid car to get the convertible, but mine had the lower compression two barrel (now it's a Buick 455 bored to 462 with Aluminum Stage 1 heads). 1989 dollars are worth less than the 1969 dollars the car was originally purchased with- I paid more for it used than it cost the original owner!

    This spring I bought a new car- Pontiac Solstice GXP. I saved my money for a whole year to put a down payment on it of 10 grand! That was 1/3 the sticker price although I didn't pay near sticker price...imagine saying 1100 bucks in 1969 for a downpayment on a car if you made 4-5 bucks an hour?
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Blairweescot
    Hey-

    how much was a '69 Buick GS400 Stage 1 Convertible? I'm guessing 3400ish

    depending on options close to 5 grand
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  • BlairweescotBlairweescot Member Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That would be close to 1969 COPO Corvette/Camaro territory!

    I was going to say you were all wrong but I actually found a '69 GS 400 convertible window sticker online: $4500, and it's a non stage 1!

    No wonder they never sold big! The '70 Stage 1 convertible listed there is over 5000, but it has most options

    http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepabj8/id5.html
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  • BlairweescotBlairweescot Member Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    double post
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