Posted by David Sherman on Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 2:33AM :
In Reply to: Used truck prices... posted by chewie on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 11:06PM :
Yep. Would be nice to go back with today's money and buy those trucks. I think my grandpa paid $1300 new for his '67 chevy 1/2-ton. Better yet, go back to just after WWII and go surplus-shopping. Jeeps really were $50 (not in a crate, though) and flyable B17s sold for $1000 for scrap. On the other hand, in 1976 I was painting a guy's house for a dollar an hour. When I got up to $2/hr doing landscaping I thought I was making decent money.