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Sat, 19 December 2015 10:20

glwgmc

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I read with interest the downloaded copy of Motorhome Marketplace from January 1996 - almost exactly 20 years ago. I was struck by several things:

1) the prices for GMC motorhomes for sale have changed very little. The seemingly nice ones are listed at $15000 to $30000. The difference from then to now is now we have a number of sub-$5000 abandoned yard queens being offered along side the seemingly nice ones still listed at $15000 to $30000.

2) many of the same specialty GMC vendors were listed except for our two Jims - neither JimB or JimK were in evidence - and no Manny.

3) Howell EFI as offered then in an ad just as it is today.

4) one specialty GMC vendor, Winterfeldt, offered drivetrain warrantees that included them coming to you in the event of an issue. 5yr, 50K on engines, 3yr 30k on transmissions, torque converters and water pumps that they installed. Great sounding service but since this is before my GMC time I don’t know how it worked out in practice.

5) one big difference is the value of the dollar has been so wildly devalued by government overspending and borrowing that our dollar today is only worth $.63 compared to a dollar in 1996.

Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR

glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com

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Jerry & Sharon Work
78 Royale
Kerby, OR

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Re: [GMCnet] Interesting observations from 20 years ago [message #292498 is a reply to message #292479]

Sat, 19 December 2015 14:53

kelvin

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On 12/19/2015 8:20 AM, Gerald Work wrote:
> 5) one big difference is the value of the dollar has been so wildly devalued by government overspending and borrowing that our dollar today is only worth $.63 compared to a dollar in 1996.
>
> Jerry Work

'76 dollar is worth 24¢ today. At least according to this calculator.
http://www.in2013dollars.com/2015-dollars-in-1976?amount=1

Do we really think if there was no US government to overspend and borrow
that it would be different?
I remember my folks in the late '60s complaining about how quickly the
price of bread was going up.

Everyone seems to want more wars. It costs money. Can't raid Social
Security again so maybe we don't go carpet bombing and start taking care
of other, more pressing problems?

Like getting the price of nice GMCs up? You know... now that I actually
have one... :^)

Kelvin
'73 23' in Eugene, OR

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Re: [GMCnet] Interesting observations from 20 years ago [message #292506 is a reply to message #292479]

Sat, 19 December 2015 17:12

Chris Tyler

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Mine has a Winterfeldt engine from the PO. He had a failure on it on the road and yes they did come out and exchange it
Doing OK so far...let me look for some wood to knock on...

76 Glenbrook

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Re: [GMCnet] Interesting observations from 20 years ago [message #292516 is a reply to message #292506]

Sat, 19 December 2015 18:24

Kingsley Coach

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Chris

I find about 2 inches above my right ear works well!

Mike in NS

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Chris Tyler
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> Mine has a Winterfeldt engine from the PO. He had a failure on it on the
> road and yes they did come out and exchange it
> Doing OK so far...let me look for some wood to knock on...
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> 76 Glenbrook
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