Adjusting for Inflation

Dr.Jass

Dr.Jass

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This is rather addicting. Think of what you paid for your car, or any other large-ticket item you bought in the past, then click here. It's both fun and heartbreaking, but well worth the exercise.

Oh, how I'd love to find a '70 Super Bee 383/auto parts car for $80.62 today. :D
 
I paid $2795 for my V45 Honda new, adjusted for inflation that's $6342.00 today. The last year they produced the V45, 2004, the list price was $7499. But if you adjust that $2795 to 2004 prices it should only be $5300 for a new V45 in 2004. That figures out to about a 30% increase over the inflationary increase, 9 years ago. :hmmm:
 
True as that may be, I couldn't invent a joke as big as Harley-Davidson. Tons of overseas parts in those "100% American" bikes.
 
Not to mention that they are the most miserable riding and unreliable of all bikes built. :doh:

Where is the consumers common sense?
Maybe if Yugo had developed a distinct sound everyone would want one. :bwuhaha:
 
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Well, in terms of Yugo, I think that whole "flying off the Mackinac Bridge because of a stiff wind" may have been the nail in their coffin.

Then again, it may have been the glued-together plastic clutch linkage. Yeah, I had to work on one a time or two.
 
I was riding motorcycles before I ever owned a car. It's always been the excepted "thing" to give a wave to oncoming bikes. But, over the years I've noticed differences in other bikers "attitudes" regarding this wave.
About 75% of full-dress Harley riders wave to most bikes.
The pretend 1%'er Harley riders consider it beneath them to wave to anything except another Harley
Riders on jap, german or english bikes all wave back
Everyone waves to a full-dress bike. You have to repect anyone motoring those monsters.
Crotch-rocket riders can't wave. If they take their hand off of the bars they fall over. :bwuhaha:
 
funny the first bike to wave to me WAS a crotch rocket..a gsxr at that doing 40+...the hogs ignore me but the rest of the bikes all wave.....but out here hogs are more status than ridden
 
Around here the hogs get ridden more in cold weather than hot. In the hot summertime they overheat aand burn the riders legs. :bwuhaha:
 
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