DODGING AHEAD
Nov 23, 2020
3 minutes
By Chad Elmore
The pent-up consumer demand that followed World War II created a seller’s market wherein almost any new car would find a buyer. Sales remained strong as the country climbed out of the 1940s and moved into the next decade with millions of new cars sold each year.
Some worried that a postwar seller’s market was behind the strong sales numbers and that a sudden, steep decline was eminent. To get a better surveyed consumers during the summer of 1950 and found the record-setting totals were being caused by “normal replacement demand” and a strong economy. Consumers were simply replacing their early postwar automobiles with brand-new rides.
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