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Driver's view of delivering new cars (Popular Science article from 1957)


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My father worked at a Ford dealership.  As a kid I would watch the drivers unload the cars from the haulers.  I wouldn't want to have to load or unload those upper decks!

 

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For you younger folks, cars weren't always delivered like this. My Dad graduated high school in 1936 and started working for a Pontiac dealer in Granite City, IL. Him and another young man would take a train to Detroit and drive a new car back while towing a second car.

Thanks, Bob

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Interesting prospective of a slice of life in 1957. Something else that I noticed when information about the load of cars on the transporter being worth up to $20,000.00. That's not even the average price of a car today. The driver is proud, and should be for the time, that he earns $8,000.00 per year. That was some pretty good money in 1957. Anyone care to figure out what that would be in todays dollars ?  

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