Mopar muscle car prices from 1982 check it out.

[tracpack440]

Anyone remember piston & rudder auto classifieds. Now is known as auto trader. Back in 1981-82 I used to get one of these every week to check out the cars for sale. About the same time I got my license. I thought back then how expensive the cars where. Anyway I cut out a lot of mopar adds from several copies back then and put them in this photo book.  Forgot all about this book until I found it about 4 years ago. Maybe someone from the NW will see there old car. Sorry about the quality of the pics.  Check out the wing car prices..    This is just part of the photo album theres more.

[Mopar Nut]

I remember those days.    

[myk]

Those prices remind me of 1994, too...

[bill440rt]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Makes you wonder where are all these cars today?? 

[Baldwinvette77]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Makes you wonder where are all these cars today?? 

He nailed it when he said "good collectors investment"
.... too bad he didn't keep it 

[myk]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Makes you wonder where are all these cars today?? 

Sitting on ebay or maybe waiting in line at Barrett Jackson/Mecum to bring in 20x's the price in the 80's...

[Indygenerallee]

Makes me wanna puke... I would have only been about 2 years old! wish I had been born about 16 years earlier!!

[1970Moparmann]

Awesome.  Thanks for sharing!

Charger 500 - $10k

Daytona - $11k. 

[rp23g7]

Those were in my high school days, I remember thinking where will I ever get that much money for one of those cars?

[chargerboy69]

Makes me wanna puke... I would have only been about 2 years old! wish I had been born about 16 years earlier!!

I wasn't much older.  I was more interested in my Millennium Falcon than a "old" car.


1969 Charger 500 with a vinyl top. . . interesting.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Sounds cheap today, but in those days, that was an absolute fortune. I was making about $9.00 per hour back then.

[cdr]

thanx for posting this!!! when i was younger my favorite thing to do was look at the cars for sale & dream,i just had a FLASH BACK lookin at all these.

VERY COOL!!!!!!  IN 1978 could have bought a complete running & driving superbird for 2500.00,but i had no money.

[Aero426]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Sounds cheap today, but in those days, that was an absolute fortune. I was making about $9.00 per hour back then.

Exactly!   The Charger next to one of those Daytonas is $2795.   Puts it into perspective.   It has never been financially "easy" to get into a wing car.  

[Homerr]

I'll grab my bag of cash.  Quick!  To the time machine!

[Cooter]

"68 Road Runner with 402 Olds"......
Hmmmm......

[69rtse4spd]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Sounds cheap today, but in those days, that was an absolute fortune. I was making about $9.00 per hour back then.

How true, cheap cars & no money.

[Ponch ®]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona....  

Sounds cheap today, but in those days, that was an absolute fortune. I was making about $9.00 per hour back then.

For reference:

$9.00(1982) = $21.74(2013)

$500 = $1200

$2500 = $6038

$5000 = $12076

$10000 = $24000

Source: http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

So yeah, I'll take a Daytona for $25000 and that GTX for $1500

[wingcar]

You know of course that posting those Ads is “Cruel and inhuman punishment” to those of us that sold cars back in the back for those prices or even lower.

I couldn't get anywhere near $10,000.00 for my Hemi 4-speed Superbird in the mid to late 70's................

(Of course I traded for it with $500.00 cash and my 68 Charger RT, so I guess I still got my money's worth out of it....lol) 

[dual fours]

Oh so cool, and so many rare Mopars at that, Thanks for sharing, keep digging in your toy box, let this be a lesson to everyone else, DO NOT THOW ANYTHING OUT!

[myk]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Sounds cheap today, but in those days, that was an absolute fortune. I was making about $9.00 per hour back then.

How true, cheap cars & no money.

That's the way it always is, lol...

[Mike DC]

 
The question is, if you adjusted those prices for inflation, would we be any happier about them than the prices now? 

[Baldwinvette77]

$11K for a "restored" Daytona.... 

Sounds cheap today, but in those days, that was an absolute fortune. I was making about $9.00 per hour back then.

i make 9$ an hour now  .......... F**K 

[ws23rt]

Thanks for posting those adds.  They bring back the memories of when I was searching all the time for mopars for sale.

As it has been said the higher optioned rare cars were priced out of the range of many of us.  I answered an add once in 1984 about a 67 coronet hemi car. As I recall miles were  around 20K and was being sold by the original owner that worked for a dealer ship.  The price was $1500. I could not beg or borrow that much and remember the phone call from the seller. He said a guy was with him with the money but wanted to give me a call since I was first. I thanked him for the call. It was a sad day

It was soon after that when I bought my second house for 90K. The bank loaned me the money for the house but would not loan me $1500 for the car.

[myk]

Thanks for posting those adds.  They bring back the memories of when I was searching all the time for mopars for sale.

As it has been said the higher optioned rare cars were priced out of the range of many of us.  I answered an add once in 1984 about a 67 coronet hemi car. As I recall miles were  around 20K and was being sold by the original owner that worked for a dealer ship.  The price was $1500. I could not beg or borrow that much and remember the phone call from the seller. He said a guy was with him with the money but wanted to give me a call since I was first. I thanked him for the call. It was a sad day

It was soon after that when I bought my second house for 90K. The bank loaned me the money for the house but would not loan me $1500 for the car.

$1500 was a lot of money back then.  Even in '94 when I coughed up $2500 for my Charger it raised many eyebrows; "how much for a what?!"  Lol...

[tracpack440]

  Here are a couple more pages. Look for the 70 barracuda with the custom front end. Kind of looks like a concept car maybe ? or just some wild custom.