Super old pricing coments.
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TriggerMan
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You guys got ripped off. My first SKS was $45 brand new in the paper wrapper covered on cosmoline. No chips or gum required. I bought a case of them in a green wooden military crate with Chinese writing. There were 12 rifles per case if I remember correctly.
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I'll take a bakers dozen.
Me too.... me too!
ronn47
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I've got a couple NRA American Riflemen magazines from the mid 50s with prices that will make you cry.
Of course an American $ was worth something then,
Of course an American $ was worth something then,
raginbull44
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I don't mind people bringing up the cool prices of the past or the neat stuff, its a fun nostalgic trip. I just hate when that same persons does the old "I know what I got" routine and have astronomical prices on a beat-to-shit mixmaster korean war M1 or how every milsurp has some magical story of being a bring-back or other nonsense. Things are only worth what people are willing to pay for them. $2,500 for a beautiful, numbers matching IHC? Makes sense. Same price on a rack-grade M1 you bought ten years ago? No thanks...
The old shotgun news ads bring a tear to my eye with what could have been. But, someday our kids might say the same as us so I just try to enjoy good deals when I see them.
The old shotgun news ads bring a tear to my eye with what could have been. But, someday our kids might say the same as us so I just try to enjoy good deals when I see them.
I remember when the gas pumps had to show half the price of the gas because the meters would not go over $0.50 a gallon. You paid twice what the pump read. I also remember pumping $0.20 gas, $0.15 McDonalds hamburgers, $0.05 Cokes, $0.10 Nutty Buddies, $0.01 bubble gum, $1,800 VW Beetles, and low wages.
Berdan primers?
I still have some 30/06 brass that came from non-corrosive surplus ammo selling for $0.10 per round.
Boxer primers are more common in the USA and are more easily reloaded.
believe it was pump would not register over 99 .9/10 per gallon, so strategy was to price at half value 75. 9/10 would be buck fitty.... real days there pumped many a gallon and cleaned windshields.
I remember hearing so many older people say "I'll start walking when gas is more than a dollar a gallon".
Yeah, for a short time between school, I worked at a full-service gas station back in the day (1978) complete with the rubber hose bell ringer. As I recall, prices were around 60 cents per gallon back then. The pumps were strictly mechanical, no electronics. Credit cards used the carbon copy tickets and the manual roll stamper. And the standard 30 weight oil poured real slow when it was 30 degrees outside!!
Snoopz
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Gas...Sunoco 260 was 32.9 per gal
Those were the days. And the "ding, ding" as you pulled in the gas station, "How may I help you today" ," Full er up", " wash the windows, check the oil"
-Snoopz
Mee Too
Sunoco... dial a grade
Had one spinster lady (teacher) that came every week for $5.00 gas... think a 52 chevy... I recall we started with her on 220 or230 grade and as price went up dialed it back so she'd get lil more for her $5.00
you could only dial it down to 190 grade
back then 190, 200, think 210 220 230 240 (premium) and 260 for full boat.
had a dragster that ran union 76 nascar fuel, tried some cam 2 and slowed down !
Snoopz
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Man we're having flash backs...friends dad had a plane, would get the aviation fuel from him, local airport wouldn't sell it to me, they said "you pull up in a plane not a problem"..Mee Too
Sunoco... dial a grade
Had one spinster lady (teacher) that came every week for $5.00 gas... think a 52 chevy... I recall we started with her on 220 or230 grade and as price went up dialed it back so she'd get lil more for her $5.00
you could only dial it down to 190 grade
back then 190, 200, think 210 220 230 240 (premium) and 260 for full boat.
had a dragster that ran union 76 nascar fuel, tried some cam 2 and slowed down !
Oil was straight 50 weight Kendall GT 1
10 quarts ...
-Snoopz
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I enjoy hearing about pricing histories on things. Sometimes the price/value of a thing has skyrocketed. Sometimes, it has plummeted. Others, it remains about constant. It also provides an insight into the general "investment value" of firearms.
I bought an SKS from Roses in 1987 for $70. That rifle is about $350 - $450 today. But had I invested that $70 in an S&P index fund, it'd be worth right at $2645 today.
I also bought a Mosin back then for $20. It'd be worth about $250 today. Had I invested that money instead, it'd be worth approximately $755 today
By contrast, a generic, basic AR-15 was $1000 back then. It'd be worth about $500 - $600 today. But that $1000 invested in the S&P would be worth $37,750 today.
Interesting stuff, to me at least.
I bought an SKS from Roses in 1987 for $70. That rifle is about $350 - $450 today. But had I invested that $70 in an S&P index fund, it'd be worth right at $2645 today.
I also bought a Mosin back then for $20. It'd be worth about $250 today. Had I invested that money instead, it'd be worth approximately $755 today
By contrast, a generic, basic AR-15 was $1000 back then. It'd be worth about $500 - $600 today. But that $1000 invested in the S&P would be worth $37,750 today.
Interesting stuff, to me at least.
Snoopz
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And you forgot bitcoins...initially.
Linux stock offerings a few decades ago.
It is interesting though..
"Colt" AR back then was like $300..but hey whats a couple hundred amongst friends and a few Thousand ..
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Oh, there was one like that that always drove in with a '60 Plymouth, the one with the big fins on the back.Mee Too
Sunoco... dial a grade
Had one spinster lady (teacher) that came every week for $5.00 gas... think a 52 chevy... I recall we started with her on 220 or230 grade and as price went up dialed it back so she'd get lil more for her $5.00
you could only dial it down to 190 grade
back then 190, 200, think 210 220 230 240 (premium) and 260 for full boat.
had a dragster that ran union 76 nascar fuel, tried some cam 2 and slowed down !
It was the opposite for me. My dad owned a plane, a '76 Cessna 182. He had the STC that allowed him to use regular pump gas. It had to be regular leaded back then, it could not contain any alcohol. He had a large tank mounted to a trailer that he would keep in the hangar with the plane. Really pissed off the FBO, who thought it was a fire hazard and asked the fire marshal to inspect the hangar. He didn't have any problem with it.
Me too again.... Pontiac slant 4 cylinder, ram air IV head, Brooks Aluminum Rods, Ross pistons
Extended sump oil pan with 3 quart moroso accusump, believe somewhere around 10 or 11 quarts Kendall GT1 50wt
golden Shamrock built this engine first fire up blew out the gasket on a remote HP1 racing oil filter
Shamrock had to do some adjusting on the oil pump bypass to control pressure... You could throw the ball valve on accusump, have 50+ psi oil
pressure before even turning it over
Cold 100psi, warm 80psi pretty consistent of rpm
took about 3 years and some suspecting stretching of the aluminum rods did her in at 6500 after a 7k launch
image below, circa 1981/1982 outside of richmond va creeksand 100 yard drag strip 6800 launch with Clutch turbo 400 trans
union 76 nascar fuel used to have to go to reidsville nc to buy it by the drum
thinkin even then ~$4.00/gallon
Also thought this would be interesting to share. For right or wrong everyone like to bag on the WASR and talk about what it used to sell for. This is not observed in the field with whatever reseller markup but current distributor pricing for a WASR.
$843.33 (inflation is a bitch)
$843.33 (inflation is a bitch)
Brawny
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That's about $550 present dollars. Not the greatest investment if you sell, but you still got away with spending less for a wasr than what you would have.