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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg
Funny you should ask. Just yesterday I was looking up the price of a rebuilt shortblock in my 1938 Sears catalog.
Radiator...........................$9.98 and you get 75 cents return of old radiator.
Model A Roadster top..........$3.85
Model A Phaeton top...........$4.75
Model A muffler..................$2.29
Rebuilt Short Block............$29.75
Front Spring......................$1.49
Standard Head...................$2.49
High Compression Head........$2.79
New Brake Drum.................$1.98
Springfield .22 single shot rifle.....$3.19
The Roadster and Phaeton tops include new glass rear window and black steel frame.
Merry Christmas
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Tom, I put your 1938 Rebuilt Short Block price ($29.75) into the inflation calculator, and accounting
only for inflation, it should cost about $472.65 today.
What has happened that it is now 10x or more over that?