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Originally Posted by Floats

Hi Guys,
I have one of each. I can’t really compare them, as the Ford is a roadster pickup and the Chevy is a 29’ six cylinder Phaeton.
Ford built 5 million Model A cars in 4 years and must have built enough spare parts to keep them on the roads.
Where the Chevies of the 30s were changed every 2 yrs. eg, 27/28 were very much the same, 29/30 etc and the numbers built much less than Ford, therefore less parts to be kept in stock.
And then the killer, I believe that when you traded a Chevy on a new one, the old one would be destroyed. By selling more new ones, less parts required to be kept in stock and in the end less used parts in junk yards.
I am not sure if the previous paragraph is true, but could very well be.

I am pretty sure that Ford did the same thing, re the scrapping of trade in's.