[GregoryFul]

You can't really judge 1950's or 1970's standards with a 2000 outlook or vice versa.

The reason you buy a car - to move people from point (a) to point (b) quickly, in comfort and safety - was well met by those cars. That may be 80% of the value of a car. It would be interesting to see what the market price of a new '68 Buick would be today, if they sold for 50% of the price of a '06 Buick do you think there would be buyers? 75%?

What would it cost GM to make a '68 Buick today?

[Nowhere Man]

The reason you buy a car - to move people from point (a) to point (b) quickly, in comfort and safety - was well met by those cars. That may be 80% of the value of a car. It would be interesting to see what the market price of a new '68 Buick would be today, if they sold for 50% of the price of a '06 Buick do you think there would be buyers? 75%?

What would it cost GM to make a '68 Buick today?

Hmmm, good question. I know for a while, perhaps they still do, they still make 1960's era Fords in South America when Ford sold them the dies. That would be something to ponder although I think the car companies are on the right track to market retro styled cars, I thought that Dodges new Challenger was actually a 1970 model pimped out a little. The Mustang looks cool too. Price wise, they seem to be a little high but I think they are on the right track. I think a lot of people forget that the purpose of the car is to get from point A to point B. Yeah, it is good to have comfort, I can go with a basic car but I need my air conditioning. B-) My mother's first car, a 1953 Ford had A/C.

Then you have the emission equipment on today's cars that were not around then although in the late 1960's, Ford did start putting the thermactor pump on their cars.