Ron Wilson

There is some discussion concerning cars made in the US during the war to which I can only add ,for what it is worth, this note. I was born in 1937 and my father was a physician working in a large city although we lived about 25 miles in the country. There were new US cars available to some needed professions such as doctors, firemen, policemen, etc. so I would always accompany him during the war to the local Chevy dealership to buy a new one. At that time the dealer was closed to the public but a rep was a phone call away and he would meet my father and I at a large storage facility where I could sit in the cars while the purchase was made. There were rows upon rows of new cars with various colors although most were black. Someone has posted that TOTAL war effort implied no gas, no meat, no tires which is simply taking things much too far - Gas, meat, tires were certainly available to anyone although on a restricted basis which is what the ration booklet was used for and the letter decal for the windshield - think about it - if there had been NO gas there would have been no auto collisions and I accompanied my father to quite a few wrecks as he would sometimes arrive at such a scene before the ambulance. After I turned 18 or so my father also noted that not only did the public at large suffer to various degrees during the war but also the hookers income diminished somewhat.