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[mab01uk]

From Daily Express - World Cars 1976

New Car Prices:-

 

Mini 850  £1248
Mini 1275GT  £1572

Marina 1.3  £1616
Rover 2200  £3036
Rover 3500  £3576
Range Rover  £4618
Jaguar XJS  £8900

Wartburg Knight  £949

Moskvitch £899

 

2013

MINI First  £11,870

F type Jag  £57,330

 

 

 

[KernowCooper]

2 each of these please Mini 850  £1248 Mini 1275GT  £1572

[miniweights]

2 each of these please Mini 850  £1248 Mini 1275GT  £1572

What! Only 2 of each

 

Here's the original receipt for my Mini 1000 back in 1971. I paid the same price almost 40 years later

 

 

By the way...there's talk of using the old Austin building as a pasty drive-in

Edited by miniweights, 20 August 2013 - 10:54 AM.

[KernowCooper]

Yes saw it about a Pasty Drive Through, that address is one I know my mates mother and father lived there until they died this year.

[Old Bob]

I seem to remember that was still a lot of money at the time.  Minis might have been cheap but wages were low........

 

Bob

[ShaunaFTW]

My friend at work paid about £100 for his first mini and earned £7 something a week! Out of that he had to pay his mam some rent too

[Leics1275]

£9 road tax......

 

9 quid .. just about buy 20 fags with that today, and that puts a mini on the road for a year LOLLOL