[Constitution Day]

You're right on dancing with the devil... as the saying goes, sooner or later you've gotta f-!

I think that whole program is a legacy of FDR's New Deal.
Seems like I read that the quotas were based on how much tobacco the particular farm produced in 1938.

Not to belabor the whole horse/buggy thing, but some of the carriage makers actually got into building cars or other similar things.

I believe that Studebaker was one of them... of course they are gone now, but they made it work up until the early-mid 60's.
There was a local company here in Wilson called Hackney Body which used to make wagons and eventually converted into making milk & other delivery trucks.

But I digress - and I see your point.

[Phantom Lord]

Speaking of old cars that arent around anymore. When I was in college in Buffalo NY right down the road from my house there was the old Pierce Arrow plant.