We received an e-mail from a friend with this stuff inside it. What you’re looking at is a mail-out flyer for a car dealership service department, circa 1928. The money that parts and labor cost then is just wildly short in today’s world.
Who knows, back then they may have been putting the screws to the customers who came in for work.
Can we still cash in on the offer?
“The labor charge for overhauling the average rear axle runs from $5.75 to $7.00”
Sign me up!
While you’re at it, I have some FJ60 wheel cylinders I’d like squeezed into the rear drums, 4.88 gears and a Grizzly locker.
Hell, I’ll even offer a 100% gratuity for those kinds of labor prices!
Grinding valves and cleaning carbon for $3.00 – 4.00.
As a Duesenberg fanatic, this gives a new perspective to the 1929 Dueseys’ price tag of $14,500.
Using the CPI index, $3 in 1928 is $41 in todays money. So labor charges seem to in the ballpark for todays rates, depending on locale of course.