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MARK DRANSFIELD
Starting Member
United Kingdom
47 Posts |  Posted - 04 Feb 2021 : 15:20:07  
| Does anyone happen to have this info?
I have an obscure accounting reason to find the original list price for my car.
I'm sure I've got a Parker's price guide from the late 1970s somewhere, which would tell me this, but after seeing that book lying around on and off for the last 40+ years and each time wondering why I'm still hanging onto such a useless book, I now can't find it!
Thanks,
Mark
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Derek
V4 Guru
United Kingdom
2192 Posts | Posted - 05 Feb 2021 : 11:44:36
| | If anyone has one of the road test books it's probably in there somewhere. |  |
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GeoffC
V4 Mad
United Kingdom
507 Posts | Posted - 05 Feb 2021 : 17:24:29
| | Our first Saab in the family was a 1969 96V4 bought from Findley and Wilks Co.Durham for £927 FUP 586H | |
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green96v4
V4 Mad
Canada
738 Posts | Posted - 05 Feb 2021 : 18:41:02
| someone posted a sticker of recommended Prices for April 1st 1973 (not sure where, may have been on the forum or on a FB page)
96V4 Saloon
Basic Retail £1092.87
car tax £91.07
VAT £118.39
Total. £1302.33
expect it to have gone up incrementally for 1975
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Edited by - green96v4 on 05 Feb 2021 18:42:33 | |
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chris steeden
V4 Fan
United Kingdom
163 Posts | Posted - 06 Feb 2021 : 14:55:16
| Every thing but '75'
I will keep looking though. |
Edited by - chris steeden on 06 Feb 2021 14:59:20 | |
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MARK DRANSFIELD
Starting Member
United Kingdom
47 Posts | Posted - 06 Feb 2021 : 16:48:07
| Thanks everyone, these are some interesting numbers.
They highlight how inflation was steaming along back then. I could use the Bank of England's inflation calculator to estimate 1975, by plugging on the 1973 number, but because inflation was so high back then it would be good to get an official 1975 price.
Cheers
Mark
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2008 9-3 Convertible
1975 96 in Green
1957 Austin Metropolitan | |
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MARK DRANSFIELD
Starting Member
United Kingdom
47 Posts | Posted - 06 Feb 2021 : 16:59:04
| .... So using the BoE calculator, if it cost £780 in 1971, that would be £11,108 in 2019 (surprisingly cheap!).
And then using the BoE calculator backwards, if it cost that on 2019, it would have cost about £1,314 in 1975.
So it would be good to see the official list price.
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2008 9-3 Convertible
1975 96 in Green
1957 Austin Metropolitan | |
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johnnie900
Starting Member
United Kingdom
34 Posts | Posted - 07 Feb 2021 : 01:07:50
| Bargains all round then! God I want the V4 Van  | |
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UK list price of a 1975 Saab 96 (N reg) when new?
