Why didn't they sell these when we were kids?

[Randall Klein]

Brain's OK? Your thinking $10,000 was do-able in 1969? I'm making $1.65/hr pumping DX Super Boron @ .29/gal. trying to swing 36 equal payments for my '69 396/375 Nova that listed for $3,625, lying thru my teeth to my Insurance guy that it was a small V-8 to pay for premiums.....'ya sure, coulda had a ZL-1 for $7K plus and had the $3 in the pocket!!!

Better have that brain checked again!

Just kid din' ol friend.....take care

[Harry 6674]

Originally Posted by Randall Klein

Brain's OK? Your thinking $10,000 was do-able in 1969? I'm making $1.65/hr pumping DX Super Boron @ .29/gal. trying to swing 36 equal payments for my '69 396/375 Nova that listed for $3,625, lying thru my teeth to my Insurance guy that it was a small V-8 to pay for premiums.....'ya sure, coulda had a ZL-1 for $7K plus and had the $3 in the pocket!!!

Better have that brain checked again!

Just kid din' ol friend.....take care

That $3600 for the nova may have bought a used 427 Cobra. Hind sight. Wish I had some.

[Tom keedle]

t-bolts were 6K in 64 if my info is/was correct....guess that's what I get for being 9yrs old at the time...

[Bob Emery]

I passed on a '69 428 CJ Mustang automatic for $2K in '74 due to insurance costs..

[DIC GEARY]

Alex...When I was a kid in high school, Cook and Bedwell went 166 MPH in top fuel.. Fastest run ever...

[Alex Denysenko]

Originally Posted by DIC GEARY

Alex...When I was a kid in high school, Cook and Bedwell went 166 MPH in top fuel.. Fastest run ever...

In 1969 I was a junior in high school working part time at my uncles standard station in Chicago for$3.50 an hour driving my hand me down 65 Mustang street racing week nights every chance we could,along with racing AHRA class at US 30 dragstrip on Sundays

[rickseeman]

$3.50 an hour in 1969? Yes, he was your uncle. Everybody else in the country was making less than 1/2 that.

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by Alex Denysenko

In 1969 I was a junior in high school working part time at my uncles standard station in Chicago for$3.50 an hour driving my hand me down 65 Mustang street racing week nights every chance we could,along with racing AHRA class at US 30 dragstrip on Sundays

$3.50 an hour in 69! I was 16 before I could get a real job. Working at gas stations in the early 70's around here. You were lucky to make $1.50-.75 an hour and get 15 to 20 hours a week, course they'd work you most of that on a weekend, LOL!

I didn't get to mess with cars in earnest until I was out of HS. I well remember the insurance racket. I passed on a lot of neat cars. The car I could afford, it was the insurance that was the killer. Those were the days, I remember passing on a 67 Corvette 427-425hp single carb motor, $2500 I believe, 1973. Don't recall the premium they required but do remember it was expensive.