Old car ads from magazines & newspapers

[dirky dirk]

[dirky dirk]

[Isimmo]

I was rummaging around our car history folders earlier and found the original Autotrader advert pages. Some interesting prices.

Edited by Isimmo on Sunday 4th June 15:03

Edited by Isimmo on Sunday 4th June 15:04

[boyse7en]

The lancia primera is one for the Cars i never knew existed thread

[droopsnoot]

^ I was just saying today that the good thing about the old printed Auto Trader was that if you fancied a replacement car, you could just browse through the "Sports and Performance" section and get a wide variety, and now you have to search by manufacturer on the web site.

And an Audi coupe for more money than an ur-quattro.

[finlo]

There's some strong prices for thirty odd years ago!

[bad company]

I fancied one of these.

[PomBstard]

*checks driveway

I mean, I really do like the car, but…

[Stick Legs]

[Stick Legs]

Lotus should be congratulated on this exceptional piece of aspirational juxtaposition for the 1990 Excel brochure.

[bad company]

Topical this week.

[generationx]

bad company said:

Topical this week.

Love the highly stylised style of these adverts, a similar thing done through the ages in the states to make the cars look more glamorous (may not be exactly the same model but you get the idea)…

[bad company]

[bad company]

When advertising speeds was allowed, even though they’re not that fast by today’s standards.

[P5BNij]

[Doyliestag]

From around the mid 1990’s [url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/JTzFGjBW[/url]

[LotusOmega375D]

Pebble Beach ad on front page of today’s Financial Times no less. Very nice old car that.

[Dapster]

LotusOmega375D said:

austinsmirk said:

I’ve discovered a few copies of autotrader from 89/90. As you’d imagine a fascinating read ! Like you all, love my older cars and I look back and think why didn’t I buy that cheap exotic whatever.

Seems like the simple answer is our choice of cars 34 years ago was staggeringly dull and rather limited. Hindsight’s a great thing as escorts, capris, minis are everywhere for buttons. I have no idea how to post pics or photos otherwise they’d be well worth adding to this.

Not everything was cheap in 1989:

If you had £1.2m back in 1989 and kept it in the bank, it would be worth £2.8m today.

Had you bought that 288 GTO you may get £3.5m for it now (https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo22/monterey/lots/r0139-1985-ferrari-288-gto/1272912).

Meanwhile a property purchased for £1m in 1988 on The Bishops Avenue in London would be worth between £20 and £35m now....

[williamp]

Doyliestag said:

From around the mid 1990’s [url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/JTzFGjBW[/url]

Those brought back many memories. From scanning bottom right (ie cheapest) when I had no money, slowly moving up and accross to finally only considering the top left (most expensive) offerings.

[IroningMan]

Reproduced on the back of a restaurant menu. Caught my eye because my father had one and in the same colour - which Chrysler UK called ‘Seville’.

Brown chequered velour seats, too.