Section : General

1970 Car Prices?

Posted By : Jason Green, 18-May-2006, 01:14pm

• 1970 Car Prices?

  Posted By : Jonathan Reed, 18-May-2006, 01:30pm

  Exchange rate history converter (only to dollars so you'll have to do krone to dollar then dollar to sterling).
  
  http://eh.net/hmit/exchangerates/

• 1970 Car Prices?

  Posted By : Andy Cook, 18-May-2006, 03:43pm

  Jason,
  
  I've got an original official Triumph price list listing all the new list prce of all models in July 1971 if that's any help. I picked this up at an autojumble as my Gt6 was registered in August 1971 so it's a nice bit of period memorabilia to keep with my car documents!
  
  From memory the list breaks the prices down in to on the raod price and price before purchase tax. It even includes optional extras (eg rear seat for the GT6, wore wheels etc). The price list is at home and I'm at work at the moment but I'll endeavour to scan the docuemnt and post it on the message board sometime during the next couple of days.
  
  Not sure how much the prices would differ from 1970 but as this is only 7 months out they must be pretty close.

  • 1970 Car Prices?

    Posted By : Andy Cook, 18-May-2006, 07:34pm

    As promissed, here are scans of the innside and outside of a Triumph 1971 price list . Note that the dealer has ammended some of the prices by hand! A real bit of Triumph history here....
    
    
    
    
    
    

    • 1970 Car Prices?

      Posted By : Jason Green, 18-May-2006, 09:23pm

      That is excellent, Andy. Thank you very much. And thank you , Jonathan, for the exchange rate link.
      
      The story so far is that the Danish tax people want another £300, on top of the £700 I've already paid for registration tax. They are saying that the Vitesse cost over £1200 in Denmark, before adding the registration fee and VAT. Obviously, one cannot pay that kind of money without being sure that they are correct. And it is for me to prove them wrong not for them to prove they are right.
      
      

      • 1970 Car Prices?

        Posted By : Andy Cook, 18-May-2006, 09:37pm

        Jason,
        
        Goodluck, hope you manage to reduce your tax burden!
        
        So the UK price of a Vitesse Convertible 6 months later before tax was £870, I hope they will take the UK price, they ought to as the car was purchased in the UK originally.
        
        I suppose you can always argue that it was UK spec not Danish spec so would not have been the same price.
        
        

        • 1970 Car Prices?

          Posted By : Jason Green, 18-May-2006, 09:53pm

          That's a good point, Andy. There should be a discount for being right hand drive.