I need to know the 1971 blue book value of a 1969 Dodge Coronet 4 door sedan in excellent condition.
I tried google and the kelley site but all I can find is the current price.
Help?
A little googling says that a new one in 1971 would have been around $2000, so maybe half that?
Your best bet? Find a fan site for the car, as someone will likely have ads or magazines from that time period, like an old Hemmings or similar.
The last new car made in America that sold for under $2000 was, I believe, the 1967 Fore Fairlane. So a '71 Coronet, average equipped, probably about $2500. Then, as now, it was practically impossible to actually find one stripped as the lowest advertised price.
My google fu bites the big one. But I just found a page on oldride dot com that gives info for every coronet model they made that year. Thank you everyone!
The people who created the Internet and populated it with information were mostly born after about 1975, and anything that preceded their personal experience was deemed too irrelevant or uninteresting to be worthy of the bother of gathering into digitally searchable form. So any data that precedes about 1975 exists by pure luck.
Unless you absolutely need the Bluebook price, you could try NewspaperArchive.com at your local library. I just logged in via my library card and did a search of US newspapers for 1971 and got lots of hits.
One in Ohio was $1795 for a 1969 Coronet convertible with 3900 miles.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, born 8th June 1955. There may be one or more other such dinosaurs who had a little bit to do with the information revolution.
Vint Cerf was born in 1943. He was responsible for the development things like IP and TCP, well before 1975.
i forgot at what kind of film ( archival film …??? ) that they have at libraries, looking up old newspaper article(s)
i bet that they will also have new and used car price(s) in them flipping thru
microfiche
Alan Turing was born in 1912.