I could scrape up and pay cash for that for a Demon. But I bet in 1971 for a youngster those prices were expensive.
About a year and a half of gross pay at $1.60 minimum wage at the time. In 1975 @ age 20 and newly married I could've bought a really nice red '70 'cuda for $1,900, not only did I not have the nineteen hundred, the insurance company wouldn't cover me. I heard the car went to Alaska.
Ouch. Its still neat though to think about all the new offerings for a muscle car available back then- small and big block offerings from Chevy Dodge Plymouth Pontiac...inhale....Buick Olds Ford and AMC.
In the very early spring of 1969 I went to my local hometown Plymouth dealer and sat down with my dad (co-signing as I was 18-1/2) and ordered my '69 Road Runner and I think when it arrive six or eight weeks later is was about the same "out the door" as that Lemon Twist Charger or around $3,800? I had a good job working in a steel related assembly plant and waiting to get drafted and shipped off to Vietnam (which drafted came a year and five months later) so I was going to make the most of my young life while I could and damn everything else. It was "The Best of Times, and the Worst of Times". Anyone have a list of the prices for the '69 Road Runner options so I can figure out the price of my RR? I think the RM23 383 base price was $3083, then add a 727, console, bucket seats, 3.91 Suregrip "Trac Pack" (or is that Super Trac Pack?), Air Grabber, Hood Stripes, AM radio, Power Steering, A01 light package, I know there was no charge for the F5 paint and black interior. May have missed something but back in the day that was a good chunk of change or monthly payments of over I think a $110 but lucky for me my parents listed it as my dad's car
and him as the primary driver for.......INSURANCE purposes
If dad only knew how many street races I had with that Road Runner
