Shorpy RULES!!

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

If you fellers want to go back in rememberations, does anyone recollect when buying a new 1946 car with a "sticker" price of about $640, they hung a necktie on the mirror as an unavoidable, or mandatory option and sold the car for $1075. The only way, or loophole to get past the OPM (Office of Price Administration). As soon as production caught up, prices dropped back to normal. I was 16 at the time.

Lynn

Being born in 41 puts me at a disadvantage for remembering a lot of the 40's , however I DO remember seeing cars with WOOD bumpers in the late 40's --- I always thought that the bumper must have been damaged and the owner was too tight to replace it! Found out years later that for a time after the war Chromium was in very short supply and Car factories made the bumpers out of wood -- If you wanted a "real" bumper you waited and bought it later!