" We may not have had a lot of money, and I only remember one new car--"
We didn't have a car until 1964 - and it was a gift from my Grandfather - his old 1951 Chevy that my uncle Lenny was using until he joined the Marine Corps .
Imagine a den mother, 11 cub scouts, a little sister, and a daschsnd packed into one of the 1950 bullet nosed Fords (it was the early '60s by then). One day the deck behind the back seat let go and we had to get two cub scouts and the dog out of the trunk....