[Milsurplus] Seen at Fair Radio this AM - prices

[Richard]

Yes indeed, back in the surplus days the good stuff was never cheap.  
Even $40 to $50 for a BC-348 was a challenge for impoverished Hams. 
(like me)  Also shipping charges were not so bad back then.

Richard, AA1P


On 05/18/2018 11:26 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> Well, as Jeep so accurately pointed out in a recent ER article of his on the SX-71, $179.95
> in the 1950s is equivalent to over $1800.00 today.
>
> I know I sure could not have dug up that sort of money then....nor now either.
>
> A $450.00 HRO-60 in 1956 is equivalent to $4125.64 today.
>
> I remember, with great sadness, once being offered an almost new Packard 1936 V-12
> Limousine for $1000.00. It was light green with dual 20" fender-mounted spares, among
> other goodies, and it ran like a top. It was beautiful.
>
> I went all over town contacting everyone I knew, trying to either borrow the money, or
> getting someone to buy it, and no deal anywhere.
>
> That would be a bit over $8600.00 today.
>
> Someone from Chicago bought it a day or two later and had it trucked out there.
>
> Sigh... :-(
>
> Ken W7EKB
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