LAT Dec 9, 1930
Quote:
Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
I have a new car, GW.
Cars in the 1950s were very distinguishable, one from another. You're a young man and are not that aware of the 1950s era, as I am. Yes, cars are better made but much more expensive when compared to the 1950s models....even beyond inflation values. Cars are now mostly made to last longer than in the 1950s era.
|
Then perhaps you need a more exciting new car. They're out there, dazzling young and old every year, just the way cars did 60 years ago. And how old am I? Old enough to have had a '51 Mercury for 42 years, a '56 Country Squire for 25, and a '53 Merc wagon for 20. If these particular examples hadn't been preserved and/or restored, they'd most likely have been rusted and junked within five years. No one one thought much of them beyond that.
Produced at the Lincoln-Mercury plant in L.A.'s CMD factory, below, July 1953
LAPL
Its three-years-newer cousin seen at the Pan-Pacific, December 2, 1955
