1958 175 Sport tail light

[DanM]

Your calculation is correct: http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf

In today's money, that's $3571.25 USD: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

About the same price as a 2013 Honda PCX 150 Scooter.

[machten]

Hmm,

Here's a comparison of prices in '58 in the US (off the internet...so I can't verify as being accurate).

Prices for 1958

House: $30,000
Average income: $4,650
Ford car: $1967-$3929
Milk (Gallon): $1.01
Gas: $.24
Bread $.19
Postage stamp: $.04
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti, 15 1/2 .oz can.: $ .19
Corned Beef: $.59 lb.

Swiss Steak: $.75 lb.
Libby Tomato Juice, 5 (46 .oz) cans: $1.00
Kraft Carmels, 1 lb pkg: $.37
Milk: $.42 half gal.
Uncle Ben’s Rice, 14 oz box - $.19
Sunkist Oranges, 5 lbs.: $.49
Cantaloupe: $.05 lb.
Celery: $.04 lb.
Tuition at Harvard: $1,250 yr.
Nathan's Hot Dog: $.25
Roundtrip airfare London to New York: $453

All sorts of interesting comparisons you could make there!

Kev