original invoices

[yorker]

This just popped up on one of the UK boards:



kind of neat, for comparison here is Sayer's:


Anyone know the exchange rate back then?

[crankin]

Well according to this website: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXCAUS.txt the Canada / U.S. Foreign Exchange Rate in 1973-03-01 was 0.9967.

This website: http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory puts it at 1.00630.

[yorker]

http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/GBPpages.pdf

[Bostonian1976]

speed control?

[SafeAirOne]

speed control?

Must be the engine. It certainly keeps speeds down.

[Eric W S]

speed control?

Hand Throttle.

[scott]

delux seating for 7?!! there ain't nothing that could be considered delux about 7 people in an 88!

[Terrys]

I've got the original Bill of Sale for a '65 2A 88 I bought this fall. It says it cost $3,205.00. The guy got a discount, for cash, or $355, and he ended up paying $2,850.

I tried scanning it but it keeps coming up too big to post.

[Jeff Aronson]

In 1965, that was an expensive automobile in the US.

When I look at my own cars from that era, I realize that the Corvair had an MSRP of around $2,100, depending on options. The Chevy Impala SS was $3,200. A Chevy Malibu would be around $2,200. Jeeps varied, depending on model, but you had to get up to the Wagoneer to enter into Land Rover territory.

Throughout the '50's and '60's the British pound hovered at $2.50/ British pound. Producing a car in Great Britain simply cost more than it did in the US. Of course, to my biased eyes, they were worth it then and continue to be worth it now .

Jeff

[Apis Mellifera]

Here's mine from my '73 88:

[Leslie]

delux seating for 7?!! there ain't nothing that could be considered delux about 7 people in an 88!

If you're English-sized, instead of American over-sized, like me ....


Seriously, though.... not that there aren't smaller Americans or larger Englishmen, but.... my buddy Dave, he was slender, wiry, very much more the size of most Englishmen I've met, and, yeah, I could see putting a bunch more of him in an 88". Me, I'm one of these overfed southern boys, 6' former infantry Marine who's gotten soft and large around the middle.... I find the back of the 88 cramped, for just me, lol....

[yorker]

well you can usually fit 6-7 American college sized girls in one- maybe that was what they had in mind.

[LaneRover]

well you can usually fit 6-7 American college sized girls in one- maybe that was what they had in mind.

Before the freshman 15?

[Jeff Aronson]

Just came across my collection of Land Rover road tests.

A 1961 109" Station Wagon, West Coast POE, was $3880 list price [no heater, passenger side windshield wiper, hand throttle, water/oil pressure gauge] So the price as tested was $4,095.

The Land Cruiser SW of that year was $3,365, but lacked low range. The Willys Jeep of 101" wheelbase would be around $2,500.

Land Rover owners needed some cash to buy one new in the US at the time. No wonder so few were actually imported here.

Jeff

[yorker]

I've spoken to several people who were buying 4X4s in the '60s and '70s and who werent' enthusiasts of any particular brand. They echoed that sentiment- they borrowed/test drove Land Rovers and when they looked at the bottom line they couldn't justify buying them. I think in 1974 you could get an early Bronco with V8 for ~3500. I can't remember what the CJ5s with the 225 v6 retailed for?