What your car would cost to buy today

[CMX360]

Anyone ever use an inflation calculator to see what it would cost to buy your car brand new today? http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

My t-top Mirada in 82 - $ 13,309
My t-top Mirada today - $ 32,256

My CMX Mirada in 82 - $ 11,556
My CMX Mirada today - $ 28,007

I paid $800 for my CMX and $1,200 for my t-top car. SCORE!

 

[CMX360]

On a side note my 98 Durango would be about 40K in todays money. HAHAHA. I could buy a 2014 Durango Citadel for that and have ten times the truck. My Duster (in its all original form) would cost around $12,870 today. Pffffft. Try buying a car as sexy looking as a 72 Duster today for only 13K.

 

[Jack Meoff]

Not 100% what my Fifth sold for in 87
I heard around $21,000....sound close?
If so it'd be $43,000 and change.
I paid $600....

 

[slant6billy]

Always been a fan of 72 Dusters. That one year only tail lamp has my vote. I see one in town that has a vertical grille (from a 70/71). It has ralley gauges too. Not stock but very cool car with champ 500 centerlines. I got to say 30 plus grand for a car of equal value

 

[My imp]

I had a '70 with an identity crisis (or split personality). It said "Duster" on the inside, but "Valiant" on the outside. 340, 4 spd, 8 3/4". Title said "Valiant 2dr. Special

 

[CMX360]

Yeah the first Dusters were Plymouth Valiant Dusters. Plymouth was thinking that putting the well known and well respected Valiant badge on it would be good for sales. The car sold like hotcakes (doubt the Valiant badge had much to do with it. Maybe they sold one extra car because of it) so in 71 it became its own car and was called the Plymouth Duster from then on.

 

[Bryan M.]

$44,075. Holy mother...

 

[Erics5th]

About 36K in todays dollars for my 84 5th Avenue (about 16K new). Or what my (soon to be ex) wife and I paid for the 13 Charger we got last year.

 

[My imp]

$44,075. Holy mother...

Is that for the Imp?

 

[Bryan M.]

Is that for the Imp?

Yep. That made my head twinge for a second.

 

[CMX360]

I read once (allpar I think) that the 81 Imperial was the most expensive american car of its day. Probably the 82 as well. They started to get a little cheap in 83 so they may not have been as much.

 

[Yellowdart69]

I paid $7800.00 for my '78 Lebaron Medallion. {sold in 1985] My '82 Cordoba was $12,600, both bought new in Toronto Canada.

 

[WildCat]

Have the receipts for my 1981 Imperial which is 33 years old this month. Mom took delivery on Oct 21, 1980

With sale tax it was 19,700 even with dad working at Chrysler they said they would never discount the car

With just a little over 7,000 1981 and 3,400 1982 they started to discount them to move them. In 1983 only around 1700 were built and they discounted them $6,000 to sell them. They were not popular new, they were too expensive and then they had problems out of the fuel injection making drive ability problems.

Moms was converted in 1988 to remove all the fuel injection. It had 9826 miles on it then and show 5,400 now. They changed the computer and had no way to flash the mileage, so a total of 15,300 miles since new. Still has the original tires, paint, interior and probably plugs and wires unless they changed them when the conversion was made.