TBT…

Posted on by December 13, 2022

Cars and Christmas…

Sigh… $3795 back then, $100,000 and up today…

If you had every car in that ad, you would easily be sitting on a half million dollars worth of vehicles.

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TBT… — 17 Comments

  1. “sitting on a half million dollars worth of vehicles.”
    Sitting IN a half million dollars worth of vehicles. 🙂

  2. And searching for premium LEADED fuel that you’d burn at the rate of 13 mpg or so. These days, about the only place you can find fuel that won’t knock is at the airport… $6 per gallon.

  3. Easy upgrade Greybeard. Valve seat replacement is a pretty straightforward job and it’s my understanding that is all that’s really needed.

  4. My son’s father-in-law picked up a new one recently. Of course he’s rather wealthy and can afford such toys.

  5. A friend recently added a 1990 Corvette ZR-1 to his stable. Paid approx $30k Cdn. Pretty much mint. Always liked that one – feels like pure testosterone even though today there’s no shortage of faster cars. It was 375 hp which was in the big time back then. In Canada the base corvette was approx $30K new and the engine option alone was another $30k. That particular engine was designed by Lotus and built for GM by Mercury marine.

  6. Buy 5 of any Chevrolet products today and in 50 years you would be setting on a few dollars worth of scrap.

  7. The phone munber prefix is Flanders as in FL3-3319. My home towns phone prefix was also Flanders as in FL6-xxxx. How many of you are old enough to have had a phone with a lettered prefix. Also I have a letter opened from Main Auto Supple with a 3 digit phone number.

    • FOrest and the last four were 0935. Made it easy to remember my laundry mark in Basic as that was it. 🙂

      Just before that we had a party line. Heh. WHOLE ‘nuther meaning these days!

  8. Y’all remember the television show ‘Route 66,’ with Martin Milner and George Maharis? They drove a Corvette across America. and had adventures.
    In the last year the show aired, I got bitten by the CAR MADNESS bug, and watched the show just to look at the car. I expect that I wasn’t the only one.
    There’s a good article on the Corvettes used on the show at:
    https://aldanamerican.com/blog/cool-facts-about-the-corvettes-on-tvs-route-66/

  9. Ed- True… LOL

    GB/Hereso- The 427 got SIX mpg if you got your foot in it… And Hereso is right, valve jobs are a necessity!

    Jim- Must be nice! I’m too old to get down into one anymore.

    David- Oh yeah! I know where there is one that is brand new, never titled, still sitting on the showroom floor…sigh

    Houston- Sigh, can’t disagree…

    Gregg- Ours was ST1-xxxx and you only had to dial five numbers!

  10. Those were the days! Its too bad we can’t rewind and go back. The years passed too quickly and we are not in a better place. America and the world is going downhill at a rapid pace.

  13. And smart people were keeping them… saying that, my people had a ranch on the Red River, which they sold in the ’70s for pennies.

    Kyrie. Eleison.

  14. Pat- Oh yes, Route 66 was a show we grew up on, and fell in love with the Vettes! SMART marketing by Chevrolet@

    Heltau- It was, I got lucky…

    LSP- Sigh, true. And those people weren’t moving all over the world with the military!