redstar

Last night saw point blank filmed 48 years ago in 1967.
OMG, Lee Marvin buying a car in a lot full of new C2 corvettes (and maybe a few C1's) Please, take me back to the 60's so I can buy some!

65hihp

OK,
you can go back, but you will have the same six bits in your pocket now that you had then.
Lee Marvin was a big movie star, and rolling in money. You were just a kid mowing lawns or flipping papers for baseball card money. Forget it. Then was then and this is now.

morly1963

Saw the same scene last night. The car lot was very cool watched the rest of the movie just to see the cars! (dont wont to go back-I was 7 in the hospital with 2-broken femurs)

redstar

No, was 23 (4Y draft status), had to sell my 63 Conv in 67 for a brand new VW bug ($1800) due to insurance problems due to Cops giving me too many tickets just driving the posted speed limits. Mostly CHP on LA freeways and those LAPD guys in blue!

capevettes

Those doggone cops just take the fun out of everything, especially out in the LA area

VITIV Coupe

I saw the same show up here in the great white north. That chick buying the convertible was hot. Kind of a boring movie after that.

65hihp

Hey I know you can't believe anything you read on the internet, but this goes too far! You were a 23 year old corvette convertible owner, and drove the speed limit in LA. My ****!! Nobody drives the speed limit here, and never has. I'm glad those cops nailed you. Damd speeders....

bigearl56

Hmmm, 1967 I was 22yo, married and just bought a '64 convertible for +/- $2400. Wife used it as daily driver while I was property of US Army. As others I sold it to make a down payment on our first home.
Brick 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath 1 car garage rancher. All in $14,500.

God Bless America

Earl

Mark_Milner

Everyone forgets that those new C2 Corvettes were about $5000 and up which was about a year's salary for many people.

Come forward and a new Corvettes is less than a year's pay for many people.

If you really want a good deal, it is the C4 Corvettes. You can find fairly decent ones in the $5000 range which is cheaper time-wise (number of weeks of pay to afford it) than those used C2s in the late '70s.

there was only a very narrow period where those old C2 Corvettes got to be around $1500 to $2000. Figuring $100 per week pay ($2.50 / hour), that was 15 to 20 weeks to afford one.



And we haven't even touched on insurance back then.

Desert Nomad

Boy you hit the nail on the head with that one. "67", stationed in Guam with the B52's making making $98/week.

Westlotorn

In 1974 I was shopping for my first car, I had saved nearly $2,000 throwing newspapers and working in the local Ice Cream store.
I looked at Corvettes for $1,500 with a Big Block and a 1971 Barracuda 383 4 speed with 35,000 miles on it and AC for $1,600. Our insurance agent would not insure me in those so I bought a 71 Nova SS with a 350 for $1,300, the small block was considered an economy car the others were considered Hot Rods by our insurance agent.
I actually wanted the Cuda it was my neighbors and he always said he would sell in to me, I had drooled on that car since it was new.
When insurance went up the value of good cars dropped like a rock in the early 70's.

GTOguy

Mark is dead right. I got into GTO's in the late '70's, although I was also interested in C1 and C2 Corvettes. A nice '64-'66 GTO ragtop with a stickshift was about $2500-$3000 in '79-'80, and you could buy a nice C2 small block roadster for $6000 all day long. A lot of money back then. I passed on a believed-real 427 roadster in 1984 for 15k.....it was a lot of money, even though I KNEW it would go up in value. Thought about buying a brand new Grand National in '86-'87 for around 17k.....and I also knew it would go up in value. Kept the $1200 '65 GTO and the $1800 '67 GTO ragtops, though, and been driving them for more than 30 years now......and what do you know? It would take 20-30 times what I paid for them to buy them in today's market. Cost is all relative.

JohnZ

When I stopped flying helicopters for Uncle Sam in 1964 and left the Army, the first thing I bought (along with a 980 sq. ft. house for $13,900) was a new '65 GTO - don't remember what if cost, but I recall paying extra for 2-speed wipers and a padded dash ($16.00).

jkuzzy

The 65 GTO might be my favorite of all of the GTO years. I really dug that rear tail light.

GTOguy

Here's the '65 I picked up in 1982 for $1200.....4 speed, tripower, gauges, etc. Been driving it ever since! Repainted it in '85, and rebuilt the engine/trans/rear end, but the car has never been out of service or restored. Just maintained. My favorite year GTO, too.

LouieM

In 1967 I was working as a geologist on an offshore oil rig in Alaska for $900/month and living expenses. When I came home to SoCal after 8 months I really COULD afford a new Vette, but I thought the '68 was a poor design and bought a year-old 67 coupe instead for $4,000. I could have gotten it cheaper was too bewitched by its looks and performance (327/300, 4-spd) [and the money burning a hold in pocket] to bargain.

I sold my 60 Chevy but AAA wouldn't insure the Vette until my family threatened to cancel all their five cars insured with AAA unless they insured me. I got the insurance.

sub006

That was the best-looking GTO ever! And wasn't it lighter than everything that came after?

sub006

Actually Big John's was a real USED car lot on Washington Blvd. in Culver City, blocks from the studios. I think the Point Blank people took the name for the bad guy from the lot, and used "his" place of business in the movie.

Big John ran ads promoting his used Corvette stock in the LA Times classifieds for the few years he was in business.

GTOguy

Sub, yes, you are correct. Every following year they got bigger and heavier.....ALL GM A bodies. Funny a guy I know ordered a brand new '68 Chevelle SS396 when he was still over in Viet Nam, having fallen in love with the '64-'67 SS's. When he got stateside and had a look at the '68's, he cancelled his order and bought a used '65 GTO convertible, which he still has, I believe. Like Louie said with the '68 vs the '67....I think'65- '67 was the high water mark for GM styling. And never mind the safety mandates that started coming into the equation.

Stingxray

Here you go ....back in time ............


http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/2...s-Happen-.html