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John B. · Jul 16, 2015

I can't believe the price people are asking for the old plows these days. I remember when you could buy them at auctions for $8 all day long,
now they're over $300 ea. I wonder if they're selling???

Cory Schmidt · Jul 16, 2015

People with to much money want them for "yard art"(though wouldn't know what it is(or for), if asked), and the people selling don't really know or want the true (lower) price for the average plow. That's only my opinion. I think its nuts what they get/hope to get for a lot of things now days.

SweetFeet · Jul 16, 2015

John B.,

Yes they are selling... I can vouch for both sides of the fence:
We recently sold our JD 1 bottom on auction - and GOT good money for it.
Last year we bought our rusty 2 bottom Little Genius - and PAID good money for it. LOL

Brent Zappe · Jul 16, 2015

I use to remember when I could buy a 67, Camero or a Mustang for only 400 hundred dollors and still drive it home. Look at that they sell now for 3,000 to 20,000 a car now. Farm tractors are the same plus all the attachments they are no longer reasonalbe but out of price. When you look at the change of times and if one man start doing it then every body eles has to do it to.

Tom in TN · Jul 16, 2015

Back in the mid 1970s I bought two John Deere 290 two row corn planters for $50.00 total. I fabricated a hitch for them and modified the row markers to make them into one four row planter.

Hey Sweetfeet - bought them at an implement dealer in Spring Valley, MN.

Those same planters sell for a lot more than $25.00 apiece now.

Tom in TN

jimg.allentown · Jul 16, 2015

Camaro and Mustang cars of that era were not well built cars. On a quiet night, you could hear them rust. Mustangs had about t6he worst front suspension of any car that I ever saw. They also mounted the alternator right in the path of all of the road dirt, snow, ice, and salt that you could find.
That was the reason that they were cheap and plentiful in those days.
I was there, working in a dealership.

Nostalgia: Getting all teary-eyed over something that sucked the first time around. IMHO, they still suck, but now they are paying more for the privilege.

SweetFeet · Jul 16, 2015

Tom in TN,

We were there for a wedding once. Been a long time though.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 17, 2015

Going to auctions for the last 50 years I've seen plows go thru several cycles from Can't give them away to Bring real good money.Many plows have been sold for scrap in the last 10 years so there are way less of them than there used to be.You should have bought all those $8 plows you saw sell.

Fred Werring · Jul 17, 2015

When I turned 16, they were just rusted out 8 year old cars, nothing special.

But they sure gave me a good start learning how to wrench on my own cars.

Fred

2 Old 2 care · Jul 17, 2015

I've got a '67 Z28 that I bought in 1972 for $1500. My dad made fun of me then because I "got ripped off". By the late '70's it was worth maybe $1200. In the '90's I decided to do a full restoration. I invested another $5500 and my wife had a flippin' FIT. About 3 years ago, I went through it again and freshened up everything to bring it to show room condition again. Spent another $8500. There was only 602 of the '67 Z's built. It is estimated that there are less than 250 documented originals still in existence. We saw one sell at a Barret Jackson auto auction last winter for a little over $125,000. My wife is now having a fit because I won't sell mine.

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