Does anyone have a time machine that can fit a ton of Nagants?

[JWGuns]

So I was visiting my grandfather and looking through his collection of Popular Mechanics magazines and found this. Even though this August 1956 issue is before my time, I still will say "oh the good 'ol days".

Just thought some of you would appreciate seeing this and might bring back some memories.

 

[Alphabrew]

Charge up the flux capacitor with 1.21 gigawatts!

 

[Alphabrew]

And those are not re-arsenaled.

 

[aquaman]

$128.77

15 bucks in 1956 dollars

 

[JWGuns]

Charge up the flux capacitor with 1.21 gigawatts!

I have plenty of trash with banana peels and empty beer cans, just cant find the Delorean

 

[CFCE]

Did you notice the part about C.O.D $5 deposit?

 

[JWGuns]

Yea I thought that was interesting too, you would never see that nowadays

 

[Furious George]

I'd rather be young now. Even if I have to pay more.

 

[Boom Boom]

What caught my eye is the 18-in chain saw for $160. In 1956. Yikes. That's over $1,300 today.

 

[JWGuns]

I'd rather be young now. Even if I have to pay more.

True that

 

[Alphabrew]

15 bucks in 1956 dollars

Assuming 3% average inflation they would be $81 in today's dollars, but your point is well taken. Would be better to fill the time machine with gold, which was $35/oz.

 

[JWGuns]

I don't understand the chainsaw price either, guess guns were like candy and chainsaws were gold.

 

[JWGuns]

Assuming 3% average inflation they would be $81 in today's dollars, but your point is well taken. Would be better to fill the time machine with gold, which was $35/oz.

Or chainsaws

 

[tc617]

I love this line in the advertisement.

"A Once-In-A-Lifetime collector's item."

Yeah, right... I would call a 57 year stretch a pretty long "ONCE" in a lifetime opportunity.

 

[aquaman]

Assuming 3% average inflation they would be $81 in today's dollars, but your point is well taken. Would be better to fill the time machine with gold, which was $35/oz.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

I used this.

 

[yellowsled]

I would have bought all of them.

I dont think they would be import marked being that it was 1956.

 

[Machodoc]

Until I tossed it out recently, I had one of those drill press conversion rigs. I got it for a buck at a yard sale, kept it 20 years, and never used it.

Ten years after that ad was run, a classmate's dad "armed" a military school with Springfields for $17 each. (They had used Garands the year before, but the US Military withdrew their ROTC program.)

Also, those rifles, based on the date, could have been French captures from the Viet Minh. That would also explain the perception that it was a once in a lifetime deal--who would have imagined, in 1956, that we'd ever be importing milsurp arms from Russia?

Also, also, in March of that year the minimum wage for federal employees was changed from 75 cents per hour to one dollar per hour. State minimum wages varied, but were almost always lower than what the fed paid, so we are looking at about three days' post-withholding income for an entry-level person to buy this, or about a week's pay for a junior enlisted man in the U.S. military.

 

[Ragnar]

Assuming 3% average inflation they would be $81 in today's dollars, but your point is well taken. Would be better to fill the time machine with gold, which was $35/oz.

Average annual inflation rate from 1956-2012 is 3.8%, not 3.

 

[JWGuns]

I would have bought all of them.

I dont think they would be import marked being that it was 1956.

I think your right about that, someone on here has to have one of these

 

[Alphabrew]

I'll bet these are SCW rifles.