PSA - ‘84 Explorer - Scorpions Style

[Sugartune]

GIBSON EXPLORER CUSTOM SHOP 1984 SCORPIONS on Kijiji

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-guitar/city-of-toronto/gibson-explorer-custom-shop-1984-scorpions/1306227111?utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_ios&utm_medium=social&utm_source=sms

[topekatj]

NICE! So $5000 CAN, is that close to $350 US? (JK, I wish)

[Dave Scepter]

I have one of those Custom Shop M. Jabs 

[Steve Haynie]

Everything from my youth and early 20s is expensive now. 

It would be nice to try out that Explorer.  It might feel just right. 

[Dave Scepter]

41 minutes ago, Steve Haynie said:

Everything from my youth and early 20s is expensive now. 

Arrrgh... I know right?..   I want to replace a guitar I foolishly traded years ago...  I originally bought the guitar for $400 & after searching for a few years, I found a replacement but it's now 2.5k... I can't get myself to do it

[Punkavenger]

I had a 67 VW bus $675 in 81. 69 Mach 1 in 1980 or so $2000. The Mustang is now $50,000 and the VW $20,000.

I talked to my young neighbor the other day ... "You had a 67 bus?  That's SICK!!!"  lol ... that Mach 1 was nice though ... tried to buy another but the highest I was willing to go was $15,000 or so.

 

[Biz Prof]

On 4/22/2021 at 8:29 PM, Punkavenger said:

that Mach 1 was nice though ... tried to buy another but the highest I was willing to go was $15,000 or so.

That '69/'70 Mustang fastback ("sportsroof" in FoMoCo parlance, IIRC) was, to my eyes, the perfect muscle car body style.  The only improvements I could even fathom were on the Boss 302 and Boss 429 variants.  A Boss 429 at that time costed Ford roughly $10k per unit to build (conversions were done by Kar Kraft in Brighton), which was Ferrari territory in '69.  The muscle car era was surreal, no doubt.

[hamerhead]

My second car was a small-block 1967 Mustang fastback (Bullitt! I wish...). It was 12 years old when I got it for $100.

My Les Paul Custom was $675 in 1978.

Still have one. Wish I had the other.