Newspaper Ads Archive
Fiat classified advertisements as they appeared in print, with the original scans, asking prices and registration numbers.
This is the real archive, with the search locked.
Below is the page exactly as members see it: every filter, the statistics, the price chart and the first few of 24,805 ads. Try a search and you will be asked to log in. Once you are, you can:
- Trace one car. Type a rego plate and see every time it was advertised, what was asked, and how the wording changed.
- Follow the prices. Monthly and yearly asking prices for any model, with the cars behind each point.
- Narrow it down. Colour, gearbox, kilometres, dealer or private sale, air conditioning, mags, one owner and more.
- See the map. Where the cars were being sold, suburb by suburb, and the archive statistics.
Beta. Sydney classifieds from 1975 to 1989 for now. Victoria, Queensland and other states are coming shortly.
24,219 ads · show all 24,805
About these advertisements
median $3,750
Colour
Of 9,359 ads with a colour (7,854 printed, 1,505 inferred from another ad of the same car)
Model year
Of 11,705 ads that give a year; hover for cars and mean asking price
Body
Of 13,574 ads with a body recorded
Model
Of 23,099 ads with a model recorded; the twelve most advertised
Mentioned in the wording
Share of all 24,219 ads that mention it; a missing mention is not evidence of absence
Seller
Of all 24,219 ads; the second is not proof of a private sale
Odometer
Of 3,962 ads that gave a reading
15,956 of these ads carry a plate that appears on more than one date in the archive.
Asking prices over time
147 months with data, 9,088 cars, 20,616 priced insertions
Nominal asking prices of the advertisements matching this search, not sale prices; the axis starts at $0. Each car counts once per month (its mean asking price in that period); a hollow point is a period with fewer than three cars, and an empty one had no priced advertisement. The mix of age, variant and condition changes over time, so this is not a depreciation curve. Each advertisement counts as the one car recorded for it; a plate read as two models in one period appears in both model series and once in All.