I (dad and I ) paid a whopping $2500 for the car in 1973. Put about $1000, give or take, into it. At 16, not quite 17, it was a mind boggling $3100 a year to insure the car, which was nine years old by then. Even if Dad had plated it, the cost was staggering.
Skip I guess hindsight is always more rosy. I just loved that car, my buddy's father had one, a '63. He restored it from the ground up, and watching him was fascinating.
Oh well, memories.
G