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Cannonpointer » Today, 3:50 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 3:50 pm

I don't wanna be a dick, but those cars weren't worth half a year's salary.

They "turned over" at 100k. The reason they were so much larger than jappo cars is that it gave consumers a place to keep their tools. If you weren't a mechanic, owning anything coming out of detroit was a risky bidness. 

Yeah, they were sleek and sexy and cool looking. They were beautiful. But they didn't hold up worth a ****.

Well for their day most people thought they were pretty good.
By 1950 the Ford flathead V8 had been in production for 19 years and this was the engine of choice for emergency generators, air raid sirens, irrigation pumps,  etc.
100,000 miles back then was A LOT of driving.
There weren't nearly as many people commuting 100 miles a day
There were still a lot of Model As on the road and a few Model Ts.
Ford recommended a complete tear down of the Model A engine every 10,000 miles...!
An engine overhaul back then wasn't something you looked forward to, but they were relatively cheap.
Guys who could do the overhauls were everywhere [even gas station owners] so this helped keep the cost of major repairs down.