Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Grandpa's cars. I was also a trucker. Believe me I didn't make enough to buy 200+ new cars. Besides that as a trucker how did grandpa have time to put many miles on his cars? Something does not add up or grandpa was just wasteful and liked the latest cars.
This past week I have been internet car shopping. I noticed many one year old cars with from 10,000 to 20,000 miles for sale. If grandpa was truckin how would he had time to drive another 10-20,000 miles on his days off?
It's true an average new car even in the 60's was under $2500 to $3000 and I remember relatives and neightbors automatically trading every two years.
Personally I don't think I've owned over a dozen cars and trucks, not counting my hobby old cars. I just traded the truck I bought in late 2004 on a year old car. On average I drove every car I owned except a few for five years or more.
Grandpa's cars had to be very low mileage and didn't need SeaFoam or anything.

 

He probably just got bored with them each year when the new stuff came out.

 

That's what my Grandpa Fred did. When he came home from France after the Great War (WW I), he took a correspondence course and became a CPA. He was very smart with money, and so he liked dabbling in the Stock Market. He would buy some penny ante stocks, let them run for the year, then when the year was over, he'd pull the ones that didn't do well, sell them and save the money. After he did this for a handful of years, he had enough money to buy a car (IIRC, Mom said it was the mid 1920's), so he bought a brand new Packard. For the next 37 out of 41 years (no new cars during WW II, of course), he traded in the car, and the money from the stocks always gave him a brand-new car each year, free and clear. After Packard bit the big one, he started buying Buick and Oldsmobile cars until the last one, a Delta 88 4-door post sedan, when he retired. An aside: Grandpa Fred was the reason Oscar (Oskar?) Garrett get his start in the trucking business, when Grandpa convinced him to buy a truck and deliver goods for other Pocatello farmers. Grandpa did the books for Garrett Freightlines from its incorporation to when he retired in 1966. For a couple decades, Mr. Garrett's buckboard wagon sat on top of Garrett Freightlines' Pocatello headquarters building (or so Mom said).

 

I've been to Pocatello once in my life. It was in the late 80's with a 52' refer and a Peterbuilt picking up a load of tatters N E of town on a New Years Eve.

I always considered trading vehicles every year a waste of money. They depreciate drasticallly the second they are driven off the lot.
The 2014 car I just bought cost less than half what a 2015 costs.

 

6/20/55

 

Hey ModelT, lookee what I got ya!

 

---^^^^^^----I'd paint it bright red and drive it!

I always get a thrill out of those pictures with people taking photos and standing near wild bears!