# "the 1935 Hudson Terraplane that Myron Robart purchased in 1948 for $25." **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 7, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338 "2018-10-07T17:18:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338/1 "2018-10-07T17:18:06Z")
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**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338/2 "2018-10-07T22:21:50Z")
Avg car cost 1500 in 1948. And a used car was 25? ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338/3 "2018-10-07T22:38:14Z")
1500 sounds high. Where do you find this data? It was a 1935 model. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338/4 "2018-10-07T23:46:37Z")
By 1948 Detroit was catching up some on post-war car demand. I bet a 13 year old car wouldn’t be in high demand. 1948 Chevys cost $1200-$1500 new. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338/5 "2018-10-07T23:49:19Z")
I think the average cost of a new Ford or Chevy in 1948 may have been someplace between $1300 and $1500 back in 1948. Car prices shot up immensely after WW II when the government lifted price controls. My dad bought a new Chevrolet in 1939 and the price was around $675. After WW II he was offered $800 for the car and it had gone 70,000 miles. Production of new cars ceased in February of 1942 and didn’t resume until the fall of 1945. There was a pent up demand for cars following WW II and customers waited up to a year for a new car. There was a waiting list. That demand wasn’t filled by 1948. I find it hard to believe that a running 1935 Terraplane could be purchased for $25. In fact, in 1951, a running Model A Ford cost $75. I think my dad had to pay over $1100 for a used 1947 Dodge in 1950. I think he got $295 for the trade-in allowance for the 1939 Chevrolet which had well over 100,000 miles so the difference was about $800. In fact, I think it took until 1950 for the supply of new cars to exceed the demand. I had an uncle who bought a new Studebaker Commander in 1948. He didn’t like the Studebaker and sold it in early 1949. He thought he could buy a new replacement car right away. He had to wait three months before a new 1949 Chevrolet became available. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338/6 "2018-10-08T00:00:28Z")
Let me add a postscript: I started attending a country consolidated school as a second grader in the fall of 1948. In the fleet of s dozen school buses, only three were manufactured after WW 2. The bus I rode was manufactured in 1939. It was a Wayne body on a GMC chassis. It didn’t pass state inspection as did several of the other buses. The owner-operators had orders in for new buses, but the companies couldn’t fill the demand. The state let the owner-operators keep using the condemned buses. It wasn’t until the fall of 1951 that the nine prewar buses were replaced with new buses. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 3:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-1935-hudson-terraplane-that-myron-robart-purchased-in-1948-for-25/126338/7 "2018-10-08T03:01:04Z")
I bought a 52 Plymouth in 1961 for $20. Despite popular belief, cars in the old days lasted nowhere as long as todays cars. A lot of cars in the snow belt went to the junk years at 6 or 7 years old. New cars were usually only considered trouble free for three tears, which was a typical trade in period in the early 50s. Flathead Fords typically needed a valve job by 40,000 miles. rings and bearings by 60,000.