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Yes, but don't forget the earning power in 1959. At a good
journeyman's wage of $4.75 per hour you were lucky to make $10,000 per year, and
that new loaded Plymouth cost about 1/3 of a year's salary. Those bumper
wings were three hours' work, and the headlamp dimmer ten hours worth.
"The older I get, the better I was."
--Roger van Hoy, '55DeSoto, '42DeSoto, '66Plymouth, '73Duster, '81
Imperial, Washougal, WA
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 5:59 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] recent find
Hello All,
I just wanted to share a recent find
with all of you. I was on ebay a week ago and bid on a Mopar Parts price list
book. It shows the Factory Retail Prices at the factory and the net prices of
all the parts for 1960, 1959 and below. It may even go into the early 50's. No
one else bid on it so now I have it. It is really neat to look through the
book and see what things cost then. For example part no.s 1943542 and 1943543.
These are the part no.s for '59 Plymouth front bumper wing guards. The factory
price for those are $16.50 ea. and the net price is $10.73 ea. Man, what we
all wouldn't do to go back in time and get parts for that price! How about an
automatic headlamp dimmer package or a mirror-matic? Well, the headlamp dimmer
is $49.70 at the factory and the net price is $38.60, the mirror-matic is
$23.25 at the factory and has a $16.28 net price. I could go on and on with
this stuff but I just thought I'd share a few things with all of you. Now, I
don't want to get bombarded with e-mails but it would be fun to see what this
book has. Maybe if we can get a list of "curiosities" that everyone always
wondered what the price was for a part; maybe we could post it somewhere
for everyone to see. Just a thought. Well that's all for now folks.
Take Care,
Frank
P.S. I'm sure there's alot of folks out there who
wonder what the price was for '58 Bumper wings. If someone can give me the
part numbers for front and rear, I'll post them tonight.
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