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To: Smokin' Joe
You could have put in your $12,000 Pinto. Oh..wait.

List of prices in 1973:

- Postage Stamp: $0.8
- Loaf of Bread: $0.25
- Gallon of Milk: $1.36
- McDonald's Hamburger: $0.25 (5 cents more for cheesburger)
- Ave New Car Price: $3,200
- Ave Household Income: $9,572

148 posted on 01/15/2015 6:13:32 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Yep. The Pinto and the Vega were the entry level cars, and sold (new) for $1999.99 where I was in ‘73.


157 posted on 01/15/2015 6:33:20 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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