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...auto men could still change their minds and revise prices up to the ceiling. But they were taking no chances of pricing their cars out of the market. In the past six years, car prices have risen enough to cause many a motorist to think twice before turning in his old car on a new one. Sample factory list prices on four-door models...
Prices in 1946 rarely included extra equipment such as radio, heater, etc., while some of the 1952 prices do include extras. Auto men quote factory list prices (usually Detroit), but to figure out his bill a motorist must add on shipping charges, taxes and equipment which is optional. These charges to a customer in New York, for example, can push the bill up as much as $700 on low-priced cars and $1,300 on high-priced models...
Collector's Item. In New Britain, Conn., the Stanley Works, a hardware firm, filled an order from a Wisconsin motorist: a pair of door hinges for a 1905 Oldsmobile...
Attorney Hermann Gottfried of Margaretville, N.Y. stood outside an upstate bus rest stop one day last week, desperately trying to thumb a ride, while his bus careened off toward New York City carrying his Gladstone bag with it. A motorist picked him up, the bus company held the bag at the Manhattan terminal, and Gottfried arrived in New York City's Municipal Building right on deadline. There he opened his bag and dumped out its contents: 117 claims demanding a total of $1,500,000 from the City of New York for the rainmaking experiments it conducted last year...
...voters turned them down. On the following day, things were different: Yonkers' policemen issued an all-time record of 458 traffic summonses. The next day they plastered Yonkers' cars with 525. The day after that, despite howls of protest, indignant editorials and black looks from every motorist, they handed out 520. At week's end, heartened perhaps by the news that cops in Bridgeport, Conn, were doing the same thing, they were still "enforcing the laws" with relentless and stony-faced glee...