<VV> Car History Question -- No Corvair

[Jim Houston]

My mother had a '49 Chevy Fleetline she purchased "new" (it was a demo) 
in 1950... we all grew up riding around in that car.  She finally put it 
to rest in about 1968 or so when she bought a Plymouth (6cyl) that was a 
used City Water Board car.  She was divorced (single mom with 3 kids) 
from 1959 until she remarried in 1964...  I got my first driver's 
license in the '49 Chevy (also the ONLY time she ever let me drive it 
alone!)...  it got respectable gas mileage for the time....

Jim Houston

Steven J. Serenska wrote:
> VVers:
>
> The Corvair, Valiant/Lancer, and Falcon were introduced in 1960. 
>
> Just prior to that, say, between 1955 and 1959, what would people have 
> used as an economy car?  By "economy car" I don't mean a car that got 
> good gas mileage, I mean one that would have been a lower priced vehicle 
> that could be purchased by most anyone. 
>
> I also don't mean cars like an older Volvo or a Saab (or even a VW), as 
> I don't think that most Americans of lesser means would have sought out 
> a relatively exotic vehicle like that.  I'm trying to get a handle on 
> whatever was the low-cost family vehicle of choice in the mid- to 
> late-50's before the manufacture of smaller, cheaper vehicles (e.g., 
> Corvair, Chevy II, Falcon, etc.) that were priced lower than the biggest 
> cars in the product line
>
> Would it have been a 10-year old whatever (e.g., a 1950 Nash Rambler)?
>
> Maybe another way to ask it is: If you were a single mother with 3 kids 
> in 1958 in the rural south who cleaned houses for a living, what was 
> your ride?  Were there any 4-cylinder vehicles that would have fallen 
> into this category?
>
> I tried Googling this, most references to vehicles from this era are for 
> models that would be of interest to collectors today.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>
> Steven "my Mom drove a 1954 Chevrolet Belair, but that was in 1967" Serenska
>
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