See a Vintage Themed “Escapist” Showcase from The Price Is Right in 1973 | Price Is Right 1973

[@RowdyRodRoddy]

Two cars including a Corvette!? Big Budget day on The Price is Right!

[@erikaartz93]

Wow a corvette for 6000.00. Those were good days

[@silvialogan9226]

If it cost $6,000 50 years ago in 1974, imagine how much it would cost now in 2024!

[@MikeekiM-vh5se]

$43,000 in 2024 dollars...Remember you made $1-$3 an hour in 1973 and the average wage was $7,500 per year!

[@MikeekiM-vh5se]

@@silvialogan9226 $43,000

[@jeff-ds2pr]

@@MikeekiM-vh5se But a Corvette Convertible today is going to cost you around twice that amount.

[@Bluestar-bh3bf]

That corvette stingray is infinite times better than the gremlin

[@markheying2830]

Also for those 2 Showcases, I would have guessed the following. 1st Showcase: $3,000 2nd Showcase: $6,000

[@MichelleUS66]

Not when you go to the insurance company for a new policy. (I agree that the Corvette wins for looks, but I think the Gremlin is cute and likely much more reliable than a seventies-era GM vehicle.)

[@GRosa250]

The Vette is definitely superior but they did say the Gremlin had a V8, which was pretty rare, so it’s still a little cool.

[@joelfresque6335]

Gee thanks mr obvious

[@Im_T.O.]

Gremlin over the vette any day. Vettes are a dime a dozen.

[@HunterPBrown]

Seeing the gremlin car makes that Simpsons joke involving mole man getting pushed off the road by Otto make more sense since those cars are way before my time lol

[@AviationCommercials]

That show always has funny car referenced, "C'mon, Ned move this thing!" "I can't, it's a Geo!"

[@KT72273]

Hans Moleman I believe!

[@SWog617]

An AMC Gremlin in one showcase and Corvette in the other? That's even more messed up than the way Bob treated the models. 😮

[@mariahendrickson1443]

Oh my! 6k Corvette??!! To think that those cars are in the 50's and up today!!!

[@JasonRourhier]

More like $80,000 -$90,000 almost $100,000 today depending on the model today!!

[@meyerj75]

Fast forward to the 1990s as they were one of the three makes (with Corvette being the model for one of them) to be offered through 3 Strikes. The other two makes were Lincolns and Cadillacs. Since March 1992, Bob Barker had stripped down the models towards domestics to show his support to the military as they fought Desert Storm the year before and following the Porsche giveaway to a female contestant whom after investigations, they could not prove that she "cheated" on 3 Strikes (she won the Porsche anyways and that was that).

[@JasonRourhier]

@@meyerj75 I saw the clip of the girl winning the Porsche.I even remember going on 33 years ago in 92 when a young student who went to Pepperdine University and won 2 cars Lincoln Continental & a Chevrolet Corvette--she won $88,865 & at the time was the biggest winner in daytime Price Is Right history.

[@mariahendrickson1443]

@meyerj75 How could u cheat on the game of 3 strikes??! I heard one time that the 3 red strikes did have opposed to the chips with numbers which they have a different feel...?? 🤔🤔🤔

[@meyerj75]

@@mariahendrickson1443 The female contestant (whom I don't remember her name so I won't make anything up) had just two chips in the bag: the final digit and the red "x". From what I witnessed, she reaches in pulls it out barely, drops it in, and pulls another one out & it becomes the one needed to win the Porsche. She would end up winning just under $80,000 in the show alone. Following that incident, only 4 digit cars were used for the reminder of the season and for a month or two, all chips were white including the "3 strikes". Again, there was no proof that she did cheat.

[@postmodernrecycler]

Janice was really working the camera with that jar of popcorn.

[@slentbob3208]

Find you a lady who will look at you the way Janice looks at Orville Redenbacher on a jar.

[@MystikWizard]

My guess was $6,200 for the second showcase. I would've won!

[@kevinfarrell9884]

Wow the gremlin had a V8 engine

[@Tim1963-u6n]

Yes l heard that it would probably be worth more than the Vette if it really had a V8 like a misprint coin

[@ritadyer9295]

1974. The year we moved to Germany for two years. (My dad was military) And thus began the best two years of my entire life! I turned 15 about 4 days after we got there.

[@meyerj75]

The Showcase Showdown winner must have been one of the lucky 11 out of the 17 that played Mystery Price, one of the most underrated pricing games in PIR history, and won.

[@Tyrone181]

The Showcase Showdown is where they spin the big wheel, which debuted as an experiment in September 1975.

[@gameshowfanatic]

Now that's a nice change from the usual Vega's. Gorgeous! And that wasn't a bad bid from her.

[@ritadyer9295]

I had a Vega. It was orange. It broke down all the time. lol! My brother had a gremlin.

[@digiblader1]

Around the time Price Is Right's daytime budget increased dramatically after a successful 1st season - allowing for luxury cars like the Stingray to be offered in the Showcase.

[@silentbob3208]

Plus Cadillac's! Hopefully, we'll see a clip of that soon here.

[@michaelwayne1977]

I wish they would stream ALL of the episodes somewhere.

[@silentbob3208]

From the Showcases and the ending of the 1/9/74 episode of The Price is Right. Featuring a BEAUTIFUL Corvette Stingray today!

[@JohnDexterCruz-op1ww]

Originally aired on CBS: 1/9/1984; repeated airing on #TPIRBarker (featuring a Corvette Stingray during one of the showcase)

[@ShamiWaller]

I bid $6000 for the Corvette 😮😮😮😮

[@MikeekiM-vh5se]

V8 Gremlin, totally weird it's COOL!!!!

[@sushi777300]

How cheap was a Corvette back then 😯 I'm amazed

[@slentbob3208]

Now, it costs an arm, a leg and your first born for one.

[@MikeekiM-vh5se]

$43,000 in todays dollars,remember you only made $7500 per year then for a good trade or white collar worker.

[@gimnazjalista97]

2:36 "COME ON DOWN" theme

[@wifeoftim]

Who cares about a car and movies! I want the books! I'm a book nerd😆

[@jeff-ds2pr]

Oddly enough the Lord of The Rings book might be worth more than anything else on the showcase if you had it today. Some of those early editions go for stupid amounts of money if they are a first print and in good shape. Corvettes from 1973-1990s really don't go for a ton of money today. They started dropping the HP on the engines around 1972 and they made a ton of them. Granted, a convertible is a rarer find.

[@agalgonzalez]

Panasonic portable TV. Wow, that was actually made.

[@MichaelStewart-y3u]

A corvette or a gremlin...decisions decisions..Lmao!

[@adamsmith9636]

I have often wondered if the winners keeped the cars they won and for how long .

[@ChristopherGray-z2x]

Carol won her showcase and total of $6000 in prizes including the car on her showcase

[@joelcromwell5983]

That same Corvette is 160k today..m

[@chuckbracken]

Great bids

[@silentbob3208]

Very good, especially on the Corvette showcase.

[@chuckbracken]

@silentbob3208 yep

[@BlueCrystalTear]

Modern showcases are basically a better version of this. They pale in comparison to what showcases became once the show moved to an hour, though.

[@greatmystery11]

The 1972 model was better! That's too bad!

[@sumchoimai1490]

It's so unreal how inflation has happened. Nowadays, some of the down payments people put on cars, you can buy three of these cars.

[@markyyy94]

This aired on January 9, 1974.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

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[@silentbob3208]

Ignore James.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@silentbob3208 Butt out, Tootsie! Otherwise, you're getting a lump of coal for Christmas 🎁!

[@davidellis5141]

Robert - Mark won't let me comment on his channel & yet he understands at least James & I are trying to have a good time. You are just a grouch 👴.

[@danielvuong]

Ur back

[@davidellis5141]

Loved My Portable Cassette & TV Players In The Mid 70's !

[@patsk8872]

And they could only do AM not FM! So funny.

[@patsk8872]

5:16 who is coughing on the mic? LOL

[@silentbob3208]

Give him a cough drop.

[@davidellis5141]

It's Robert ... the cough led to some horrible flatulence 😖 🤒

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@davidellis5141 Yep 👍🏻, it sure 👍🏻 did.

[@silentbob3208]

Patsk, ignore these two above me. ☝️ Trolls.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@silentbob3208 Keep out of it, Toots!

[@anandguruji83]

Carol Wins the Showcase Plus the Gremlin Worth $6,000 4:53

[@anandguruji83]

Carol Wins the Showcase Plus the Gremlin Worth $6,000 4:53

[@davidellis5141]

The Lovely Carol Wins ! 4:52

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@anandguruji83 At the end of the January 9, 1974, episode of _The Price Is Right 👉🏻,_ which originally aired 💨 on CBS Daytime at 3 🕒 pm Eastern, of course. Furthermore, Happy 😂 Holidays 🎅🏻🎄🎁! And next ➡️ month are two ✌️🏻 January _Price Is Right 👉🏻_ birthdays 🎉🎉: Former Barker's Beauty 💅🏼 (and Girard, Ohio, native) Kathleen (JoAnn) Bradley's 74th birthday 🎈 (January 10) and former Barker's Beauty 💅🏼 (and Idaho Falls 🌻🍁🎃, Idaho, native) Brandi (Dawn 🌇) Sherwood 🪵's 54th birthday 🎁 (January 13).

[@silentbob3208]

Nope, James is being mass-reported all day now for harassment and spam.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@davidellis5141 At the end of the January 9, 1974, episode of _The Price Is Right 👉🏻,_ which originally aired 💨 on CBS Daytime at 3 🕒 pm Eastern, of course. Furthermore, Happy 😊 Holidays 🎅🏻🎄🎁! And next ➡️ month are two ✌️🏻 January _Price Is Right 👉🏻_ birthdays 🎉🎉: Former Barker's Beauty 💅🏼 (and Girard, Ohio, native) Kathleen (JoAnn) Bradley's 74th birthday 🎈 (January 10) and former Barker's Beauty 💅🏼 (and Idaho Falls 🌻🍁🎃, Idaho, native) Brandi (Dawn 🌇) Sherwood 🪵's 54th birthday 🎁 (January 13).

[@KT72273]

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[@jamesmcclelland1414]

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[@meyerj75]

Also seen on shows like Let's Make A Deal and The New Treasure Hunt.

[@OnuohaUchenna-m5p]

Confirm

[@davidellis5141]

Deny

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@davidellis5141 Why?

[@davidellis5141]

It is how it 🤷 should be.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@davidellis5141 I see.

[@slentbob3208]

Ignore these other two literal re-darts in the replies. Trolls

[@davidellis5141]

The Price Is Right ✅️ ! A Mark Goodson Bill Todman Production

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

At the end of the January 9, 1974, episode of _The Price Is Right 👉🏻,_ which originally aired 💨 on CBS Daytime at 3 🕒 pm Eastern, of course, David.

[@meyerj75]

That's right! Mark Goodson and Bill Todman and not Merrill Heater and Bob Quigley!

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

I don't remember the Mystery Price game.

[@silentbob3208]

Probably because the game lasted only for about 5 months.

[@davidellis5141]

Peter Gabriel he has an excellent song called I Don't Remember.

[@markyyy94]

The game was only played during Season 2.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@davidellis5141 Which was released in November 1980, of course.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

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[@davidellis5141]

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[@jamesmcclelland1414]

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[@jamesmcclelland1414]

Towards the end of the January 9, 1974, episode of _The Price Is Right 👉🏻,_ which originally aired 💨 on CBS Daytime at 3 🕒 pm Eastern. Furthermore, Happy 😁 Holidays 🎅🏻🎄🎁! And next ➡️ month are two ✌️🏻 January _Price Is Right 👉🏻_ birthdays 🎉🎉: Former Barker's Beauty 💅🏼 (and Girard, Ohio, native) Kathleen (JoAnn) Bradley's 74th birthday 🎈 (January 10) and former Barker's Beauty 💅🏼 (and Idaho Falls 🌻🍁🎃, Idaho, native) Brandi (Dawn 🌇) Sherwood 🪵's 54th birthday 🎁 (January 13).

[@silentbob3208]

⚠Unwanted spam, continue to ignore James + his pal David and report all harassment from them.

[@davidellis5141]

Cute 😍 Carol had the best 👌 bid at $2,800 💵 !!

[@davidellis5141]

Robert Flagged 🏁 ( Harassment )

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

@@davidellis5141 With a difference of $466 because the actual retail price of _Price Is Right 👉🏻_ contestant Carol Whatshername 😦’s first showcase, which included a portable Panasonic pop-up 🆙 TV 📺/radio 📻; a portable Air 💨 Castle 🏰 cassette ➿ player 🎮; a Lady 👩🏻 Schick Speed ⏩ Styler 💈 hair 💈 dryer with Lilt; and an American 🇺🇸 Motors Gremlin, was $3,266.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

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