Cost of a NEW Model A in 1930?

[JBill]

Originally Posted by Gene F

People think a little recession today is a big deal. In perspective they have no idea. It's mazing the things that people did just to get by. My car was built in March of 1928. I always wonder if it ever got reposessed, of if the original owner had to sell it because they needed the cash.

My dad used to tell about how in the early thirties they would take an entire wagon load of corn to the local elevator (in Hillsdale, Illinois) and get $1.00 for it.