when a car cost $3000

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Looking through a few old Consumer Reports I have from 1967, it seems the going price for the average large-screen console color TV (none had remotes) was $600 or so. A 19" B&W set averaged around $150. According to an inflation calculator, this translates to $3828 and $957 today. Seems a little high to me.

My '66 Newport cost $3600.99 new (have the receipt.) Only options were automatic, power steering, radio, air conditioning and the light package. Funny to think that automatic and power steering & brakes were still options in some Chryslers, Buicks and Mercurys until the early '70's. Guess they needed a price leader for the ads to lure in the customers.

On the other hand, I knew an old lady years ago who bought her house on four lots in suburban New Orleans in 1938 for $850. Today a McMansion sits on that property.