I don't use OMG as a rule but this is a laugh.or depressing. In Invercargill April 28 1983 1974 Holden Monaro GTS 308 4 door manual.$6995 1971" " " " " " " " " " " GTS 253 manual$2695 1968 Mercury Cougar 351$9995
Get aload of this though. 1973 Ford Falcon Luxury. T shift auto, Bucket seats, Vinyl roof, Sparkling mettalic paint.$5495.Deposit $3300. !972 Holden Kingswood 253 auto, metaalic gold and immaculate. $4695.deposit $3300.
I do remember when deposits were more than half the value of the car, you certainly had to save back then And plenty of jap cars for sale and there prices as well. Oh and a 4 bedroom house with office.$75000.00
ryanm2,
Nov 11, 6:09am
why dont you check the property section whilst you are at it!
gunhand,
Nov 11, 6:10am
EEER I did. See House 4 bedroom and office $75000.00 There were a few more as well.
fordkiwi27,
Nov 11, 6:11am
il grab the falcon hardtop.chur
snoopy221,
Nov 11, 6:14am
Rekon ya'll nail yaself a 2V250!
mmm!
ladatrouble,
Nov 11, 6:55am
And if you checked the prices 5 years either side of that date they'd be pretty much the same. Prices were high and stayed that way, you didn't lose money on a car like you do these days.
mothergoose_nz,
Nov 11, 7:18am
aluminium row boats were being given awat with secondhand cars at one stage. you drove off with the boat upside down on the car roof.
bowla3,
Nov 11, 8:18am
1973 Valient ranger $2995 !973 Regal $4295 I bought a 1971 VH Valiant about 1980. Think I paid around $3000. I also think my salary was about $6000 pa.
tgray,
Nov 11, 7:05pm
In 1983 my friends were buying their first houses for around $30,000 in Auckland. The average wage was around $10,000 Cars were relatively very expensive and the interest rates on financing one was about 27% p/annum.
mm12345,
Nov 11, 8:19pm
Early 1983 I had an XD Falcon company car.It was 4.1 auto, but no PS, was a bitch to drive around town, and was a putrid yellow colour. This was post oil shock, carless days, and then a price and wage freeze under Muldoon.Oil prices were falling, but the mindset had changed.The company fleet was downsized from falcons and cortinas to telstars and lasers.IIRC the Telstar I got cost $18k, it cost $5 for a ticket to a Ranfurly shield game at Lancaster Park, an LP record was $12.95. The price/wage freeze was a joke.You couldn't get a pay rise, but prices kept rising - we'd routinely just increase the prices of stock on spurious or real grounds that imported components had increased in price, IIRC we just had to document it and send some paperwork off to govt - which nobody ever checked or disputed. In '83, NZ sucked.We left for Aus.
chebry,
Nov 12, 5:07am
My old man bought a new Holden every 2 years and made money on every single one of them. NEW cars were hard to get
sw20,
Nov 12, 9:11am
Did he have shares overseas!
A father of one of my Dads mates at high school used to get a brand new Holden Premier every couple of years, he had BHP shares. Kept it for a couple of years then sell them on for more money than he paid.
Good old Muldoon, making us the Cuba of the South Pacific.
No he could access new cars from the dealership he worked at Though he did buy a new HQ Wagon in OZ when they were released and took delivery here first HQ wagon into NZ, usually as one was bought he ordered another
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