Guess?

[henk4]

so the seller is belonging to a firm of chartered accountants. There must be a catch to this transaction

and by the way: This transaction dates from 1994. so the expression back then in the days got many of us wrongfooted, when they were looking for the selling price when the car was new.

[PerfAdv]

Here's a receipt from Harry Truman's purchase of two '41 Chryslers in Nov/1940.

So the price of a '39 should be about the same at just more than a thousand.


*Receipt courtesy of www.trumanlibrary.org

[nota]

and by the way: This transaction dates from 1994. so the expression back then in the days got many of us wrongfooted, when they were looking for the selling price when the car was new.

Too right, and in any case $1 isn't that cheap - considering BMW sold an entire car company (Rover-MG) for $20 and the famous motorcycle firm of MV Augusta recently fetched the princely amount of one single euro

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