A brief Google search shows the base price of a 1984 Carrera 3.2 was $33k including destination. In 2012 dollars that works out to $73k. So what are those extra couple hundred horsepower, bigger brakes, vastly improved handling, shifting, reliability and safety worth to you?
(The same window sticker shows $645 for metallic paint and $1,580 in forged
16" alloy wheels as options, so some things haven't changed).