Brand New 1970 Maverick $1976

Wow that would have been nice, but at 10 years old I couldn't get financing, just looking at some of those prices on the other cars.....hindsight is indeed 20/20!

 

Eh I'd have gone for the 69 Mustang.

 

Now that is way beyond cool

 

Yeah I've ordered a dozen(all with 428CJ with shaker hood) and they threw in the used '64 Galaxie with three on the tree for free(I had one with same 'bout 100 years ago)...

 

I remember those ads! That is about the lowest figure I remember for the Maverick. There were some lower, but they were bare bones cars. 3spd column shift, 170 engine, no radio, rubber floor.

 

Prices look great but remember...The average take home pay in 69 was between 48 and 72 dollars a week...My dad was making 65.00 a week at the ford stamping plant here...Good $$ back then. Those ads are pretty cool to see now...That country squire would be a 22K car now as a bare bones ride...

 

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I remember when I bought my first new car. My black 71 Comet GT. The payments were $91.00 per month for 36 months. I didn't sleep that night wondering how I was going to find the money to make the payments.

 

Wow, that's $23 less than what Ford advertised them at.

 

That sounds a little low to me... As a kid out of HS I started in Jan '69 at $95 a week and that gave me something like $75-$80 after deductions... Within approx a year I was making $121 a wk(I remember that as my future F-I-L asked me how much I made the first time we met)...

MY job??? Sears Service Dept, field tech, TV repair...

 

Thats skilled labor...Working production at the ford plant was just...Labor...Not "Skilled" So, yeah...You made real good $$$

 

Brand new Maverick for $11,725! Couldn't beat that deal either!

 

I remember those ads, too. At the time a new VW Beetle cost the same and I had a hard time deciding between the two. Wages depended on the cost of living of the area you lived in. I had just started a 2nd shift job and with night differential was making $2.10 hour while still a senior in high school. Everyone thought it was rediculous that a kid my age was making that kind of money.

 

Crap, my first real job in 1985 was $4/hr....