How many different automobile brands did one have to pick from in 1929?
“How many different automobile brands did one have to pick from in 1929?”
How was it “junk” compared to the alternatives that people had who couldn’t afford a Dusenberg?
The last I checked, a huge problem circa 1900 in large urban areas was that horse doo dried out on the streets, and then became “powderized” as other vehicles ran over it. The stuff then became airborne, and the cities had a fine haze of powdered horse sh*t floating in the air for all to breathe.
Prior the the start of the Stock Market fall and the depression there were literally dozens of small car makers that were making the new horseless carriage, most all were handbuilt and often were unique in the engine area like the Stanley Steamer and even electric cars. And there was the extreme class division of the day of the normal folks and the high society that had custom built luxury cars like the Cadillacs, Packards, Dusenburgs and such with air cooled and large engines like the V12 and V16.