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Robert Delk 01-15-2017 06:46 PM

I've got most copies of the Shotgun News from 1966 through the late 70's and they are fun to go through if you can remember to adjust for inflation.

Phil Yearout 01-16-2017 11:50 AM

In 1975 I was an illustrator at Boeing; my starting salary was $10,000 a year. My dad, who had a really good job (he worked for Mobil Oil as a gauger), said "Do you know how long I worked before I made $10,000 a year?" Times have indeed changed!

Richard Flanders 01-16-2017 12:25 PM

In 1965 my dad supported 8 people on $8,800/yr. I worked in a neighbors hayfields all that summer for .50/hr and at the end had $500 for the entire summers work. I was already playing with my first Parker though, a family VH12 that a brother still has. I don't get it, but economic theories tell us that things cost the same today as then, that you still get the same thing for a days labor, the only difference being the dollar amount involved. Can you imagine what a loaf of bread will cost in 50yrs?? It won't matter really because by then the poverty level will be way above $100,000/yr. Go figure.

Mike Franzen 01-16-2017 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dean Romig (Post 209546)
In 1968 I sold my 1965 GTO hard top with tri-carb, and a close-ratio Muncie for $1,200. and I was making $1.55/hr.


YOU DID WHAT??? You HAD a 65 Tri-Power G T O AND YOU SOLD IT!!! I don't know what in the world to think of this young man! Now GO get that car back. ITS MY DREAM!!!


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Dean Romig 01-16-2017 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Franzen (Post 209701)
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Sorry Mike - the kid I sold it to wound it around a pole three months after he bought it.

(I still have nightmares that I still own it but can't find where I stashed it :crying:)





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todd allen 01-22-2017 09:02 PM

I had a 65 GTO as well. Tri-Power 389, 4 speed, and 410 gears. Wish I still had it.
In about 1978, I passed up on an all original 68 Hemi Roadrunner, because I couldn't come up with the 3 grand the guy wanted.


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