Quick 73 RS price trivia help. How low did values go?

[monovich]

Just doing a little writing and I'm having trouble finding this bit of info. I'm looking for the low point in '73 RS prices since it was released. Who knows, maybe it never went down, but is there a place that charts the curve? Hagerty doesn't really go back that far and that is the only graph I've found.

Many thanks.

[McLovin]

I certainly recall seeing them in the $30s.

I knew someone who bought one in the mid 90s for $65K and that seemed like a lot at the time.

My guess is at the low point you could have bought one for around $15K.

[monovich]

Originally Posted by McLovin

I certainly recall seeing them in the $30s.

I knew someone who bought one in the mid 90s for $65K and that seemed like a lot at the time.

My guess is at the low point you could have bought one for around $15K.

do you think the low point was the '70s '80s, or '90s?

Thanks!

[mobius911]

I bought one in 84. Still have it. In 84 they could be bought grey market from Germany for $15-25k. That was around 50,000 German marks so it represented a pretty good jump from the new price in 73. They were already achieving "collector" recognition at the time although not at the level we see today. By the late eighties they went up to around $80-$100k. The bubble burst in I guess 89 and they dropped to around $40k in the early nineties. Shot up in the late nineties, seemed to plateau in the early 00s, and then shot up again to today's potentially bubbly values.

Don't know what they did in the seventies. There are also other factors to consider like exchange rates (very favorable for the dollar when I purchased) and inflation that would affect the value plot.

[R K T]

Yeah, a friend bought a white/green touring in '85 for $18,500. Sold it about 5 years ago for $190,000 really quickly.....coulda got more.

[monovich]

Very helpful info. Thanks for taking the time to share. It really is amazing how a car is released, then it fades a bit, then it re emerges as a classic. Of course not all cars do this, but the ones that do are fascinating to retrace.