SAIL LOCO wrote:
LOL........... I told you you were living in the past.

In the mid-60s engineers 3 years out of school easily earned over
$10,000/yr. A nicely furnished apt fronting on a heated pool, with
carport, cost $85/mo utilities included, or buy a new house for a year's
pay. MGBs cost $2995, a well appointed vette $3500, XKEs or Cobras (the
real ones) $5000 and Ferraris $10 to 12,500 depending on model. Gas was
two bits a gallon and Jet Setters were whining that the "American
peasant" had had it too good for too long!!

Don't like sport cars? Fine. You could buy a Renault Dauphin, a nice
little 4dr that seated 4 in comfort and got 35MPG, for $1600 or a well
optioned US V8 for $2500. A '68 HO GTO could just pick its left front
tire off the ground headed for a 12-second 1/4 mile, and it cost under
$4000! Of course it'd only do 130 but ...

Now we got cars that go over 200, but they cost over $200,000 too, and I
don't know many "American peasants" in their mid-20s who can afford one.
Ain't progress grand?