I wish these prices were still around

[06Daytona]

Got this in an email today from the car club in Canada.

[GranCuda1970]

Thats pretty cool there were restoration shops back then too.

[AARCUDADEN]

New fenders for 3.50 to 5.00 bucks each :faint:Ya can't even buy a can of spray bomb primer for that much at the Dollar General 

[ViperMan]

Wow - that is a neat picture.  I think though you'd find those prices are still quite accurate....  If you multiplied by 100. 

Thanks for sharing that.  I remember the Model A I worked on very briefly at the restoration shop.

[shadango]

Its all relative I guess.    The prices were "cheap" but wages were waaaaaaay less.

Sniffing around the web, if you believe the sources, one will find that bread was 9 cents a loaf......and a model t sold new for $385.

The ad was suggesting spending $100 to rebuild the car....

If an average car today is $18k, wondering how many of us would sink $5k into a daily driver to rebuild.......I think many folks these days would just cut bait and buy another used car, if for no other reason than variety.....LOL

"Time" magazine says the average net income was just over $6k.....wow.  Thats like $115 a week....$460 a month.

[ksierens]

I also check into this a little.  The prices are actually equivalent to today's. 

In 1930, the average wage was about $1300 and the average cost of a car about $640. Today, the average wage is about $40,000 and the average car about $19,000.

Remember Henry Ford instituted the $5 a day wage for factory workers, which at the time was considered a ridiculous amount.

[hpe600rt]

 bet they made 2 bucks a week or some low amout like that

[1970 RT Challenger 1970]

1928...one year before the stock market crashed....I wonder if that dealer/repair outfit made it through the 1930's?