[ARC5] Inflation, radios, and cars

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Messerschmit (sp) built something like that in the 50's.  Except the body 
was aluminum, the engine was probably petrol, and it was a two-seater (fore 
and aft).  A family in my old home town in north LA had one.  But I never got 
to drive it.

In a message dated 2/22/2010 8:40:11 PM Central Standard Time, 
jcoward5452 at aol.com writes: 
> I want one or two!
> Jay
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 12:16 pm
> Subject: [ARC5] Inflation, radios, and cars
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> One reason it is difficult to compare is that today you can buy things 
> that you 
> ould not buy for any price years ago.  What would a rather pedestrian 2.4 
> GHZ 
> omputer been worth in 1946?
> But that goes both ways.  I have an ad out of QST for a place called Radio 
> Shack 
> n 1946 that shows a full set of brand new SCR-274-N components, including 
> 3 
> eceivers, two transmitters, and all the control boxes for $39.95.
> Now, around 1980, buying all that gear at a southern Cailf ham swap meet 
> might 
> ave have cost you a total of maybe $15.00; it would have not been new, but 
> 
> robably in pretty good shape, unhacked.  Today imagine what it would be 
> worth.  
> ertainly a lot more than you would pay for a 2.4 GHZ computer.
> As for cars, did y'all hear about the new VW that is going to be built in 
> China 
> or that market? Single seat, carbon fiber body, bubble canopy like a 
> P-51D, 1 
> ylinder diesel engine, gets 250 mpg, at a sales price of $600.  And that 
> is not 
> typo, SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.  
> Y'all have a good weekend.
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