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[RSTarga]

This is a great example of inflation over 37 years. I love the option costs.

[CurtEgerer]

I wonder what 'forged alloy wheels' were included for no charge in '73?

I have the window sticker for my '71. The original owner told me he was stretching his budget to the limit just to buy the car. So he couldn't afford the $200 or so dollars for the optional Fuchs wheels. The dealer took them off and put steelies on it. Then a few years later, he saved up enough money and went back to the dealer and bought the Fuchs.

[304065]

That is a hell of a lot of money in 1973, a year's salary for a highly paid professional back then. Inflation adjusted, $12,040.25 is $59,334.30 today according to BLS.

[RSTarga]

I wonder what 'forged alloy wheels' were included for no charge in '73?

I have the window sticker for my '71. The original owner told me he was stretching his budget to the limit just to buy the car. So he couldn't afford the $200 or so dollars for the optional Fuchs wheels. The dealer took them off and put steelies on it. Then a few years later, he saved up enough money and went back to the dealer and bought the Fuchs.

They were the Fuchs Forged Alloy 6x15 standard on the S

[edmayo]

Wow, they really nailed you on those sport seats !! If you had only known, could have filled up the truck and been a rich man today!!!

[RSTarga]

Wow, they really nailed you on those sport seats !! If you had only known, could have filled up the truck and been a rich man today!!!

The worst part is that, for me, they were so uncomfortable on long trips that I took them off and put in aftermarket Recaro LS (much better seats but not as valuable), and the shop kept the seats, the fog lights ended up in a closet in a house I moved out of due to a broken lens that I couldn't get. Nowadays I keep all my old parts I change out.

[advtracing]

Ed, a reminder that the seat option was a swap.. it's not like you didn't have seats and you "bought" a set of sport seats as an option, you had seats in the car already....

I might also add that the original "base" seat was quite complex and possibly more expensive to build than sport seats...

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But compare tinted glass price to sport seats , sports seats are sort after now and high price and tinted glass...you can't give it away

[execmalibu]

In theory we should have all bought Porsche antennas and hid away them because the antenna cost more then a Sport Seat!

Sport seats were $110 ($55 each) compared to a retractible antenna @ $65... So a NOS antenna should be worth more then a NOS Sport Seat right?? I have one NOS antenna for sale asking only $2,500 :-}

[Mr9146]

In theory we should have all bought Porsche antennas and hid away them because the antenna cost more then a Sport Seat!

Sport seats were $110 ($55 each) compared to a retractible antenna @ $65... So a NOS antenna should be worth more then a NOS Sport Seat right?? I have one NOS antenna for sale asking only $2,500 :-}

How's this for a throwback (copied from 356 Registry newsletter Mar. '86):

'55 Factory Sunroof, no motor XLNT body, $2,500; 356 A hood. Perfect, never bent or rusted, $600; 356 SC tool kit, complete, mint cond., $275; Carrera 8,000 RPM tach, new, $250; Carrera 2 wooden wheel XLNT - trades, contact Jim Hughes

[Mr9146]

In 1980 the Deutsch Mark to Dollar exchange rate was 1.82DM to $1. Let's do a little math using this example from the 356 Registry Newsletter Oct./Nov. '80:

"Spyder 550 031 (see "Excellence Was Expected) world-record-car von Frankenberg. Probably without engine, as needed for 356 Historic racing in Europe. Street version soft-top and glass-windscreen, also both racing screens. Body and chassis restored. DM 45,000. Ingo R. Zeitz"

That means you could have bought 550 031 for roughly $25,725 (without motor) in 1980.

Have 550s cracked the million mark, yet?