I found a binder with 12 months of Road & Track for 1962. Here are a few of the classified ads from the back...
1962 Road&Track Classified section
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An inflation calculator indicates today's money would be about 10X prices listed. Many today are actually worth WAY more than 10X the listed price.
the TR Ferrari is likely 1000x. Also not sure what a Bugatti Atlantic is worth nowadays but at 4k I'm sure you would have come out "OK"...
I would have had a tough time buying any of these with my lawn-cutting money from summer since I was playing HS baseball after school in 10th grade.....
From the mid-1950s to 1965. Both sides of my family were driving ‘used’ cars.
My father’s daily drivers were a1934 Packrd Twelve Club Sedan, V12 Lincoln Zephyr & a 1929 Lincoln Locke Coupe. In 1960 bought a new VW Beetle. When he passed away in 1969. He only had the 1929 Lincoln.
My uncle bought a new 1958 Porsche 356a. Then eventually sold it for a Mercedes. Later in life he has owned 1932 Franklin Club Sedan, now haz a 1932 Convertible Coupe Roadster as his Summer daily.
My mom drove a 1934 Packard Super 8 Convertible Coupe Roadster in high school.
My grandfather had a 1918 Dodge he sold to buy the 1914 KisselKar 4-40 Touring, which is currently on loan to the Wisconsin Auto Museum. In 1963 he sold the Super 8 to buy the 1932 Packard 905 Twin Six Dietrich Convertible Victoria he paid $ 4500 for. He found a 1913 Armleder in a CT farmer’s field & restored it.
By 1979, he had sold the Armleder & the 1932 Packard Twin Six. In partial trade he received the 1933 Packard Twelve Convertible Coupe Roadster.
When he passed away in 1998. He left the KisselKar & Packard Twelve to me.
The rest is modern history.
My father’s daily drivers were a1934 Packrd Twelve Club Sedan, V12 Lincoln Zephyr & a 1929 Lincoln Locke Coupe. In 1960 bought a new VW Beetle. When he passed away in 1969. He only had the 1929 Lincoln.
My uncle bought a new 1958 Porsche 356a. Then eventually sold it for a Mercedes. Later in life he has owned 1932 Franklin Club Sedan, now haz a 1932 Convertible Coupe Roadster as his Summer daily.
My mom drove a 1934 Packard Super 8 Convertible Coupe Roadster in high school.
My grandfather had a 1918 Dodge he sold to buy the 1914 KisselKar 4-40 Touring, which is currently on loan to the Wisconsin Auto Museum. In 1963 he sold the Super 8 to buy the 1932 Packard 905 Twin Six Dietrich Convertible Victoria he paid $ 4500 for. He found a 1913 Armleder in a CT farmer’s field & restored it.
By 1979, he had sold the Armleder & the 1932 Packard Twin Six. In partial trade he received the 1933 Packard Twelve Convertible Coupe Roadster.
When he passed away in 1998. He left the KisselKar & Packard Twelve to me.
The rest is modern history.
jmackro
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Well, yes. But remember, that you would have also paid for storage and insurance (at a minimum - let alone maintenance) for those 61 years. Still, it would have been nice to have had any of these cars (although I was 13 year old in 1962). I guess we should have mowed a LOT more lawns.