By Dean Weingarten The above ad is from 1958 Guns magazine(pdf). In constant dollars, one dollar in 1958 would be worth about $8.36 today. Let’s see how the 1958 prices look in 2016 dollars.Total of prices listed for the four rifles, $41.76. If you bought all four at once, they only cost $27.84 total. The equivalent in 2016 calculates at $232.74. These rifles were far from “excellent” or “like new”, which is why they were so cheap.Some excerpts from Group A, top to bottom: “All guns practically complete“, “You can see light through the bore”, “worn, but serviceable“, and ...