Actually I think it was £7.10 a week. The Morris was £10 a week. And remember, this is pre-decimalization and pre-VAT.

That would work out as anout £129 a week or £516 a month mortgage repayments.

Considering that the date is pre-decimal money, I think he may have meant £7 10/-, Which is £7.50 in new money

Shocking as in low or high? £7 is £86 a week in todays money and i pay £54 a week on my mortgage

What aught to be shocking is what has happened to the cost of everything today.

lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂You should write comedy that was brilluant😅😅

That’s hilarious!

Lol

Hi claslessbozo317..yes he didn't mention the money for a spray job...😅😅😅

Very well, splendid! 😂

Jolly hockey-sticks 😂😂

That lady has money and a lot of it

1970: The COST of a CAR | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 0637am 30.5.24 neither can i, young lady, well said. the haggling scene reminded me of derek and clive's are you handy scene..... or this man came up to me.... and/or val being jesus.

How are parts dirt cheap for a classic car?!

Sinclair C5 ?

She had no idea how others lived, born into extreme wealth.

@@chuckemmorll2821 true probably!

@@chuckemmorll2821 she'd get a huge comedown when trading in that Zodiac as the depreciation & running costs were crippling ,even to a snob like her! It was probably banger raced by 1975

She was right - she’ll be dead 💀 by now.

She must vote tories

it was a ford zephyr , i loved those cars as a kid ! by the time i was old enough to drive one ....they were virtually all gone ! smashed up in destruction derbys , scrapped or rotting away beyond repair in someones yard.

I knew there would be a comment about here, I bet she was a great Filly.

​@@peterscotney1My favorite Ford. Must be an Executive, though.

You have to be off a certain age to know exactly what your on about..... Sybil

It had a fawlty manuel gearbox.

Brilliant 👏

Love that faulty towers episode gormet night with the branch hitting lol

​@@jdb47gamesOoh...nice one.

GOOD OLD DAYS 🤣

you really could.

That's still only £194 in 2024!!!!

Car payments are easily the biggest and most common wealth killer of the working classes.

100% bang on

The situation over the last few years has changed, depending on what sort of car one buys. If you are so negative towards cars and driving, what on earth were you doing watching this upload?

@@resnonverba137 He's not being negative towards cars, he's suggesting a cheaper way to do it

People pay 300 a month for peace of mind and reliability

Terrible? Wages kept pace to a much greater extent. The CEO / average worker pay ratio was far healthier. Notice that the HP example in the film was over 24 months, whereas people take on 5 or even 6 years' worth of debt against their depreciating car these days. The average person's wages went further back then. My dad was an area manager for Little Chef in the mid and late 70s, and my mum gave up her job because his salary was enough for a very comfortable life. I grew up in a very nice 1930s semi, with a large garden, and my brother and I wanted for very little.

@Jack Warner Ya essex 😝

@@legin3753 post war 4 bed house in 1982/83 in Birmingham in an nice area At the timeI think was £36,000

@Jack Warner It was a nice, architect designed house. The area was a good middle class urvan place. Definitely not posh but certainly most home owners were very house proud.

@@nkenchington6575 Good point about the 24 months and you're right about the CEO/average worker ratio. I used the word "terrible" because we were all worried about what the costs would be "in 6 month's time". People were scared of taking on a loan in 1974-1976 because the interest rates looked set to go up to 15-20%. Thankfully, that didn't happen but they did get to about 12% for a period of time. Had that persisted, it would have bankrupted many borrowers.

You don't need to factor in depreciation if you run the same car until it dies. although the recent used car price bubble my car (same model year and the extra mileage accumulation) my car was selling for the same price (£5,450) I bought it for 8 years ago at 2 years old with 10,000 miles in 2014. It didn't last long though. I've spent more on fuel then I have the car, £7053.25 in fuel to drive 87276 miles and that's mostly kept down by the fact it's a small petrol Toyota Aygo that's averaged 69.8mpg over the entirety of those miles. (It's from figures tracked using fuelly).

Her husband paid for it, that's why!😂

she can say that because her husband foots the bill. nice little motor that was

1960s was a bad time to go through. These people are great and eloquent. It's what made their civilization conquer half the world and become the most successful. But then again, the present is still the best time to live for most humans.

I'm 54 and I'm wtf, I know wages were low but seriously £7 that's crazy

@@thebadgamer1967 I don’t think they where lower back in the 40’s. My grandma made about $7 a week.

Cars cost the average UK person over 6k a year. not hugely dissimilar to mortgages now.

was thinking that myself...lol

I have not had a real mortgage for some time and have only ever bought one car on HP, but it would be interesting to do a genuine comparison today. I think some people might be shocked!

He was probably using a Chinagraph pencil.

These days of course the BBC would be using flashy captions.

£100 in 1970 =£1229 in 2022

@@unarmedduck (I did this for my own curiosity but thought I'd share it!). £1,229 at £1.70 a litre buys you 723 litres or 159 gallons. Therefore a car today doing 40mpg would get 6,360 miles from today's equivalent of £100 in 1970. Our chap in the film got 10,000 miles from £100, so fuel is considerably more expensive now (assuming his Austin did 40mpg). QED.

@@PurpleTT99 No chance it was anywhere near 40mpg, those are the modern cars, we are talking about engines from 50 years ago.

@@foryou6888 Yeah fair point.

@@PurpleTT99 bro that thing was probably doing 1 mile per gallon 😂

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Priceless. 🤣

3 million pounds ? whats that in zonks ?

Correction: for those watching in 2028

Depends on how far you drive to compare it

10,000 miles average. Today it's far below that.

@@joesam7744 it must be cos my car is 10 years old with 58,000 miles on the clock.

Ah the ideological lies of the capitalist media. If it was familiar it's only because BL still had a major market share. Ask anyone with actual experience about the useless automatic chokes on Fords & VWs and the healthy market in manual conversions. BL had the A & B Series engines, with Westlake combustion chambers, best best burners going with ultra simple & effective SU carburettors. If you couldn't get one started it was your own fault.

Let's have house prices come down to that sort of level too, prices have spiralled out of all control now, I'm glad that I'm one foot in the grave, I don't even think that I would be able to afford to retire, my pension is worthless, no doubt means testing will come in to see if we qualify for state pension by the time retirement comes around for me. "Oh you have a car, sell it, your own home, sell it, I see you're wearing clothes, sell them, you should be able to afford to live on the street"

10 pounds in the seventies is about 180 pounds in today's money, you can get a banging SUV fult optioned for that weekly budget that would make those trash dumpsters on wheels pale in comparison.

@@garminbozia what frightens me so much is just how much, even now, the average person spends on a vehicle. I considered an electric vehicle, I couldn't afford to buy outright, but the average price of £30,000 the monthly payments were more than I'd ever paid for a mortgage, that's before the cost of a charger (if you can have one), the cost of charging when out on the road, if you can find a chargepoint, or even a working chargepoint, then you need a bank card of some description, a technical phone, that's just to be able to charge the battery, from £30,000, add on those extra costs, probably £33,000, then there's road tax now, MoT, tyres, and other wear and tear items, servicing, if you don't own your own vehicle outright, I wouldn't think that for a combustion engined vehicle or an electric vehicle, that the cost would be that much different now. I would never have thought that the price of the average car would be more than I paid for my house when I bought that in 1996

@andrewgage6942 What do you mean that you have one foot in grave?! :O

You should not be a motorist.

Thank you for saving me the click through to the calculator!

£10 pounds in 1970 £182.82 pounds today

And the average wage was £23 a week

It’s funny how we always remember our first car. Mine was a bottle green fiesta, best part of 20 years old when I bought her in 1995. She was called Ruby! I eventually gave her to my son when he passed his test.

@@JulieWallis1963 someone's first car is usually their first taste of proper freedom. Being able to go where they want without having to have parents or a family member take them. I think for that reason someone's first car will always have a special place in their hearts. I grew up in the countryside. Buses were pretty much useless, especially past 6pm so all my friends and I learnt to drive as soon as possible.

@@SimonLloydGuitar I doubt it had any upgrades. It was very basic, it didn't even have a radio when I brought it for a grand sum of £250 in '91.

Don't forget that cars at that time were garbage bins on wheels compared to cars today. They deteriorated much quicker while new cars were making progress much faster (which means that buying a new car was a much better deal back then)

@@huguesjouffrai9618 Exactly! I don’t know how it was in the UK but American cars at the time where practically disposable goods. You where meant to buy a new car every other year because the car was a status symbol & the economy was good enough for people to have that kind of disposable income, so the cars would pretty much fall apart in about 8 to 10. Nobody thought they’d be around that long.

No that would be £110 per week adjusting to inflation today.

Try getting a mortgage of below £500 in London these days

@@Jawis32 so expensive 😅

@@global001 I'm not pointing out that it isnt expensive, but your comparing it to a public transport fare. 110 would be an expensive return fare.

10 squid was a lotta money in 1970

That is certainly part of it. It is also down to increased wages across all sectors and investors demanding ever greater returns on capital invested. How much were you earning in 1970 relative to the cost of petrol? I worked in a steel mill a decade later than that and I was making about £8k p/a (as a certified tradesman). I don't think anyone I know spent less than 500 a year on fuel then.

10 pounds is about 182 in today's money

I was expecting that as well.

@@garminbozia Nearer 140 GBP I'd say. Approximately the wages of a skilled tradesman for 7 days.

She seems rich

CityNerd has done this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZiifJBmv6y7YXk.html TL;DW: Around $7000 a year ($135/week), the actual cost scaling up or down with miles traveled.

$5 a gallon... how ever do you cope?? :')

working class men used to put on an RP accent if they dealt with the public (such that salesmen do)

Cars used to rust quickly back then... Much less of a problem on modern cars.

Exactly. I bet none of the people he asked had got a new car, or chopped it in every year. Thats a total mugs game..

If a 70's car was still on the road after 10 years it was a miracle, or it spent 8 of those years tucked up in a garage.

' Go figure' ?.

There is no fuel crisis, you are falling for another trick my friend. Once people have lost touch with reality, you can convince them to do anything. Just keep doing as your told and dont ask any questions

@@foylad4862 quite right I always buy £20 petrol and it always costs the same

What new car was 5999 in 2014?

@@foylad4862 there is a fuel crisis, but it’s been manufactured by the people who have tasked themselves with solving it. Welcome to politics.

We are talking 1970 prices though! 52 years ago ten pounds was quite a lot of money!

In 2021 money that’s £110 a week. Still sounds like a bargain to me!

@@SigmundJaehn house prices in real terms are 4 times more expensive now.

A weekly wage then was about £18 per week.

@@fasthracing The average house price in the UK 1970 was about £4000!

>"a mere 50 years"

Bruh You do realize that the average British wage was 18 pounds a week back then

True. We are a tall family 👪. Hubby 6ft 3, son 6ft 5 and me 5ft 10. Newer cars tend to be pretty low with little leg room.

who know who else had a short life.... nice pfp

Don’t forget about inflation

@@incognito_. £750. Probably similar to today. It is for my car anyway.

thats why i drive a 25yr old volvo !