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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:25
PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Car Lifespan (Newsweek
Article, July 1964)
I have scanned an
article from Newsweek, July 1964. (See links below)
That was about the time many of the '55-'56 Forwardlooks were heading to the
junkyard. I think this is a very interesting article to help us
understand why cars were junked.
I was surprised by
how many people drove the car to a bad part of town, removed the license
plate, then walked away, when they were done with it. The tow charge to
the junkyard was more than the car was worth to the junkman. Cities had
litter clean up crews that removed the junk cars littering the
city. What a different time it was.
Robert
Whitman in
KC
'60 Adventurer
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