Old DuPont Ads

Cool. Blast from the past. Would love to get my hands on that yellow Daytona for $110 K. Of course, that was about 50% more than the cost of our first house, which we bought around that time...T

 

The 456 was a current model and the vintage market had yet to recover from the 1989-90 crash.
Let's set the Wayback Machine to 1970 for a look at Kirk White's newsletter. Read it and weep
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I want to go back.

 

Thanks for posting. What a different world!

 

I remember when i first discovered Dupont Registry while in Brazil. It was so expensive. I think $15. My grandma bought me a subscription and every month i would wait for the new issue to come in as xmas ( i was 12 or so.).
Good times.

 

I used to save up in the late 90’s to early 2000’s to buy the DuPont Registry and eventually became a subscriber. I’ll never forget how frustrated I would get when some dealers never listed the prices! (I don’t know why since I wasn’t a buyer anyway, hahaha).

On a similar note, I remember how excited I was when Barrett Jackson was first televised. I’d wait all year and then sit in front of the TV all weekend. Damn those commercial breaks, when a good car was coming up next!

Erik

 

I've got a bunch of DuPont Registry's saved from the early to mid 1990's. Along with some old Ferrari Market Letters from that era.

Kinda fun to look back to compare and contrast with todays markets.

Joe

 

This article just came out today and covers phrases and language to illustrate dubious advertising claims in classified ads and auction catalogs. Enjoy!

https://mycarquest.com/2021/01/dubious-language-used-in-car-advertisements-and-auction-listings.html​