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[gd.pudge 2]

does any one know what wheelhorses sold for new.in the 70s?

[BairleaFarm 340]

I have no idea but here is a pricelist from 1964. This was orginally posted by another member on here. Hope it helps.

[KyBlue 655]

theres a copy of the Cost/price sheet in the WH book... Ill have to grab it and take a look.. Dont rember waht it said...I think it was for 73 thou..

[Teddy da Bear 11]

You could just add the rate of inflation for each year after 1964. That might get you close to an answer.

Of course you would have to search the net for that info too. :hide:

[Butch 194]

theres a copy of the Cost/price sheet in the WH book... Ill have to grab it and take a look.. Dont rember waht it said...I think it was for 73 thou..

I tried scanning that page in the book. It didn't come out very well since

it was hand written. Whoda thought things were actually written down?

But it was pretty cool to see the 3 prices, Customers MSRP, Dealers and

Distributors. It sure got inflated by the time it reached the consumer!

[Butch 194]

This is the best I could do.

[Sparky-(Admin) 23,147]

Hers some prices from 1984.

Mike.........

[Teddy da Bear 11]

You just gave me an idea.... Not sure how easy it would be.....

I know that wheel horse would have advertized in the South Bend Tribune.

I know from volenteering at the historical society that they had hard copy binders of various newspapers (every single day of the year) way back to the 1890's..... The hard copies were made and then scanned onto microfiche.

I would think the Tribune would have operated in the same way.

I wonder where they are stored and if they are accessible to the general public??

hmmmmm......

[KyBlue 655]

Might be worth a call to find out, maybe we could sucker a local into spending a day or two making photo copies of old papers..hehe If I was closer, I gotta mom who loves doing that kinda stuff

[pond195520032003 27]

you could go to your public library :hide:

[KyBlue 655]

I cant...they got my photo up in there...with one of those big circles with the line thru it... haha

Could - be like finding a needle in a haystack thou since we only had one WH dealer locally and i dunno if they even ran ads in the paper..

[HorseFixer 2,013]

From looking at the price from distributor, to dealer, to end consumer looks like each markup was around $200.00 or so dollars. That was a pretty good profit in the 70's :hide:

[linen beige 15]

I cant...they got my photo up in there...with one of those big circles with the line thru it... haha

Could - be like finding a needle in a haystack thou since we only had one WH dealer locally and i dunno if they even ran ads in the paper..

Is that pic in the library or the post office?

There was a dealer in Lexington, Keller equipment I think. The former owner's son works at Central equipment in the parts room. The Lex. Herald-Leader might have some old ads in their archives? And there HAD to be a dealer in Louisville. The Courier-Journal may be a place to look.

[bambooheels 0]

:D makes me wonder though, the models sold in the 60's havent increaded in price if you thnk about it. i know its a hobby and a passion, but it would be reat to know im spending all this time on machines taht increas in value. forgetthe labor of love and the endless hours! and the pick upi and driving to and from to get these babies looks like a 702 isnt worth anymore maybe even less then when it was new..... wanna talk inflation

[wh500special 2,267]

I have no idea but here is a pricelist from 1964.

[T-Mo-(Moderator) 4,602]

Steve,

What did you use to adjust the inflation prices?

I found this site: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ but it only goes up to 2007.

Now, for grins, I took a 1966 JD 110 with manual lift (the price new is listed on wfm). It cost $719 new in '66 without deck. Using the site above, it would cost $4547.74 without deck - now the deck was $148 new in '66, so the price for it in 2007 would be - $936.11. For a grand total of $5483.85 for tractor and deck. Now, the 110 would be similar to the Classic 315-8, so very similar priced.

[Brian1045 28]

That's a cool inflation calculator.

I put the price of gas of when I graduated high school. Gas was .86 cents then (1987-1988)

The calculator is saying gas should now cost $1.49

Where does the madness end?... :D

[wh500special 2,267]

What did you use to adjust the inflation prices?

I used the calculator that you and I both own...the one from our gummint:

Inflation calculator

Fun toy to play with and I use it frequently for work.

Nice to see the 110 price too since it shows comparatively how expensive our tractors were.

You can plug in all kinds of prices/times into these things and come away realizing that - generally - things are much cheaper today in terms of value/dollar than they used to be in the "good ol' days".

Fun stuff.

Steve