Guess the Price (1974)

[elton]

I bought my first motorcycle in 1974, a Suzuki A100, when the price was £200 brand new and £190 discounted. Sold it a year later for £220 and bought a new Suzuki GT250A for £450.

 

[newtothis]

And in 1980 - only 5 years later - I bought my first house (2 bed end of terrace) in a village that was (then) a cheap alternative to Cambridge at a price of £18,000! Inflation was truly rampant in those days.

27 years later I bought a 2-bed flat in Zone 2 London and it was only 3.5 times what you paid. The odd property crash tended to sort out prices in those days.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Answers
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1. Anderson 22 £1950
2.Contessa 26 £3750
3.Cutlass 27 £4950
4. Etap 22 £2800
5. Foxcub 18 £ 920
6. Moody 33 £9786
7.Pedro 17'3" £587
8.Rival 40 £20,000
9.Centaur 26 £4450
10. Contessa 32 £7800

Thanks all. Enjoyed it.

a. £20,000
b. 9786
c. 7800
d. 4950
e. 4450
f. 3750
g. 2800
h. 1950
i.. 920
j. 587

 

[LONG_KEELER]

1. Anderson 22 h. 1950
2.Contessa 26 f. 3750
3.Cutlass 27 d. 4950
4. Etap 22 g. 2800
5. Foxcub 18 i.. 920
6. Moody 33 b. 9786
7.Pedro 17'3" j. 587
8.Rival 40 a. £20,000
9.Centaur 26 e. 4450
10. Contessa 32 c. 7800

Well done Shanty !

Your prize is ..........................

Absolutely nothing.

 

[Sharky34]

Answers
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1. Anderson 22 £1950
2.Contessa 26 £3750
3.Cutlass 27 £4950
4. Etap 22 £2800
5. Foxcub 18 £ 920
6. Moody 33 £9786
7.Pedro 17'3" £587
8.Rival 40 £20,000
9.Centaur 26 £4450
10. Contessa 32 £7800

Thanks all. Enjoyed it.

a. £20,000
b. 9786
c. 7800
d. 4950
e. 4450
f. 3750
g. 2800
h. 1950
i.. 920
j. 587

In 1982, an Anderson 22 was £6,505.
Wow, that seems expensive.

 

[Davy_S]

n 1982, an Anderson 22 was £6,505.
Wow, that seems expensive.

Not when you consider it could sleep eight, and venture across oceans in a force 9, when 40 footers were cowering in the marina!

 

[Sharky34]

Not when you consider it could sleep eight, and venture across oceans in a force 9, when 40 footers were cowering in the marina!

What are these amazing speed machines selling for thesedays (pre virus).

 

[laika]

venture across oceans in a force 9, when 40 footers were cowering in the marina!

IIRC seajet mentioned f11. I suspect you’d only just be starting to think about a reef at f9 in an a22

 

[Boathook]

MY 8M Catalac was £8800 new in 1975 but was sold as a "used"/demonstrator to avoid VAT perhaps.

They nearly always used the new ones as demonstrators which was also a good way of testing them. I think that the 8m was called Fellowship and the 9m was called Friendship. Certainly for the 9m all they had to do was put the Dodger in place around the cockpit.