So long ago that Hot Rod doesn't even cover El Mirage racing anymore, and no one can afford that roadster on a high school diploma job

I figure if that exact car were for sale, today, in exactly the condition it was in the day it was photographed here, it would be over 50,000 dollars. Probably closer to 80, simply because the very rich collectors are always snapping them up for private collections for a while before they flip them to sell at an even higher price. 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-333#post-13383022