tonys
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Post by tonys on Jan 1, 2018 13:25:33 GMT
Congratulations, so your car is effectively 'two owners' and certainly 'two family owners', which is quite rare for a 47-year-old car. That's a good provenance, as the dealers would say and I'd be surprised if there were many around now with fewer owners, although there might be a couple on here that I can think of.
It was unfortunate that the original owner doesn't appear to have had much of an opportunity to enjoy it when it was new as I would imagine the car's originally delivery was keenly awaited.
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Post by lagain on Jan 1, 2018 21:10:08 GMT
Congratulations on the anniversary and if it is not a rude question how much did you pay for it ?  When I bought my car in 1975 with 14000 miles on the clock she cost me £1795. There had been 2 previous owners although the second owner had never been able to drive her as he went on holiday as the deal was being done and and was met by the Grim Reaper ! The last time I was sent a replacement log book from Swansea under 'Previous Owners' it now says 'None' |
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Post by Phil Nottingham on Jan 2, 2018 17:52:50 GMT
I bought my first and only new car in 1981 for £5500! Your P5B was a real bargain. My then top of the range Vauxhall Astra 1300 GLS 3 door hatch has long gone after I had to get rid of it at 101,000 miles in 1989 as I could not work the clutch anymore because of my back troubles.
I toyed with the idea of buying a Mk1 3 Litre auto near Leicester but I could not get to inspect it and the owner did not offer to bring it around. I had doubts then whether I would ever be able to mess around with cars new or old so bought an Opel Rekord auto followed swiftly by a Rover 820SE auto just over 2 years old.
This car was fully equipped and lovely to drive but incredibly unreliable and was the sole reason I sold it a huge loss bought our first P5B saloon 25 years ago last September. This, a 1969 model, did have tax and MOT but needed new springs, rear shock absorbers, sills and exhaust which I was well enough to fix and I was motoring in it the following July as our main car.
That car was broken by me for spares eventually and we now have 5 more classics in addition to my wife's 1968 Mini she has had since 1972. The back troubles are still with me and will always and I am patched up more than our classics
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Post by Warwick on Jan 3, 2018 10:25:32 GMT
The Reserve Bank of Australia has a handy inflation calculator on its website. I've used it for years to see what the value of things in the past are in today's money. I've been frightened a few times when looking back and discovering what I actually paid for various past purchases. Anyway, I thought there was probably a UK version so I did a Google search and here it is. www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation (Scroll down just over half way down the page) I thought it would be worth posting the link because I've found that most Australians don't know our Reserve Bank offers this facility, so it's likely that most UK residents don't know about theirs. And for the Aussies, here's ours. www.rba.gov.au/calculator/ |
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Jan 3, 2018 12:01:16 GMT
Happy New Year Warwick your link was blank ok now  Interesting!! I remember people buying a colour tv for £500+ in the early 70's for one channel and they were terrible a massive switch to change over the timebase from 405 to 625 lines  What I earned in 1968 as a married man would put me in the poverty class today!! |
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Post by Phil Nottingham on Jan 3, 2018 18:26:48 GMT
Its all smoke and mirrors!
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Post by Warwick on Jan 4, 2018 4:25:26 GMT
Happy New Year Warwick your link was blank ok now ... Thanks John. Happy New Year to you too. Which link didn't work? I always test links that I put in posts, after I post them. They both worked then. What did you have to do to it? If any Aussies are interested in prices that are pre-decimal currency (1966 - Who still has that jingle stuck in their head?), then there is a link on that page to the calculator for the earlier period. Although it doesn't go back as far as the UK calculator. Has anyone noticed? It goes back to 1209. You can't use these calculators in reverse, but you can work backwards by trial and error. Therefore, theoretically, Phil could work out what his ancestor the Sheriff would have had to fork out for a P5 if they'd been available. |
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Jan 4, 2018 9:17:27 GMT
Happy New Year Warwick your link was blank ok now ... Thanks John. Happy New Year to you too. Which link didn't work? I always test links that I put in posts, after I post them. They both worked then. What did you have to do to it? If any Aussies are interested in prices that are pre-decimal currency (1966 - Who still has that jingle stuck in their head?), then there is a link on that page to the calculator for the earlier period. Although it doesn't go back as far as the UK calculator. Has anyone noticed? It goes back to 1209. You can't use these calculators in reverse, but you can work backwards by trial and error. Therefore, theoretically, Phil could work out what his ancestor the Sheriff would have had to fork out for a P5 if they'd been available. Hi Warwick both links this morning using Chrome don't work on my laptop but are 100% using Microsoft Edge so ?? I looked at the price of a colour tv in the early 70's today it was nearly 8K! |
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Post by Phil Nottingham on Jan 4, 2018 18:34:55 GMT
Actually I only live near Nottingham but was born a couple of miles away in Derbyshire and have ancestors on both sides who hail from Wales of course
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Interesting!! I remember people buying a colour tv for £500+ in the early 70's for one channel and they were terrible a massive switch to change over the timebase from 405 to 625 lines 