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    6/04/2013 5:01 PM  #1

    dave68
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    Attention Ford Owners: What a difference 85 years makes

    Price to work on a model t in 1928
     
    Attention Ford Owners: What a difference 85 years makes
     
     
     
    CAR REPAIR MAILER.
    AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR ADVERTISEMENT IN 1928...

    SENT ON A PENNY POSTCARD

     

    1968 Coupe 289 C-4 Dave
     

    6/04/2013 7:16 PM  #2

    Redvert67
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    Re: Attention Ford Owners: What a difference 85 years makes

    Wow, just Wow!!

    It's easier to add horsepower than it is to lose weight.
     

    6/04/2013 7:48 PM  #3

    65james
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    Re: Attention Ford Owners: What a difference 85 years makes

    Pretty cool.  The gas to get you to the dealer these days cost more than the parts  back then.

     

    6/04/2013 10:06 PM  #4

    steve s.
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    Re: Attention Ford Owners: What a difference 85 years makes

    or, if your old "T" model was worn out, you could cough up $385 for brand new 1928 "A" model roadster.

    i think i'll take three new ones at that price....

     

    6/05/2013 8:23 AM  #5

    boomyal
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    Re: Attention Ford Owners: What a difference 85 years makes

    That's right up their with the 4 cent Delmonico steak!

     

    6/05/2013 8:27 PM  #6

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    Re: Attention Ford Owners: What a difference 85 years makes

    An average hourly wage for a manufacturing worker in 1928 was .56 cents an hour.  Relative to a person's income then, $385.00 would have been a pretty good chunk of change.

    In todays dollars, $385.00 would equal $5,099.86.

    By 1932, that same worker's hourly wage would have dropped to .44 cents an hour (12 cents an hour decrease in pay) --assuming in 1932 they still had a job.

     

     

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