Re: what was it like to buy a new model a?
first off we have a big difference in your personal economy. Today the relative cost of a car to you living expenses is much higher. With the abundance of loans cars, houses, education have all increased in their cost.
In reading various historical books you start to get a better picture. Ford was very strict with the profits the dealers got. They made the dealers take stuff to sell. Like the fertilizer the New York city dealer was supposed to sell when there were no farms in his area.
Like to today profit was made off the extra stuff they sold. All the accessories you see listed were where the dealers made off well.
Of course, once you owned the car you drove it everyday. It was advertised to go 60 and everyone did that even if the roads did not warrant it. Yes go read pieces of how people drove in the 30's, they basically beat the crap out of the cars everyday and they kept working.
Back then you were trying to keep batteries, condensers, and tires working cause they were not as good.
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