With no new cars you could have the "junk" cars on the road !! As a kid we participated in all the scrap drives, going around the 'hood" with our wagons. I remember a big pile of aluminum at the end of our street, then much later I learned they didn't even make canteens out of the stuff. Only virgin metal in aircraft. A bunch of WW I cannons in parks were melted down but after WW II some of these towns got German artillery to replace them. A high school not too far away had a German 75mm PAK41 anti tank gun in the front. I almost got my hands on it but I had no help and couldn't do it alone. I wonder if it is still there ?? A lot of the scrap drives and other stuff was to make the peasants(us) feel good about the sacrifices.
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