Skyrocketing prices, a shrunken supply and the furious wartime demand for used cars has OPA looking down the barrel of another gun. Used cars are a vital reserve in the nation's wire-taut transportation system. That reserve is dissolving swiftly, under the attack of a demand that has already forced prices up an estimated 160 to 180% (based on prewar depreciation figures).
Nationwide gas rationing last November slowed the used car business. Many dealers got out. Others sickened, but doggedly held on. In the Middle and Far West, gas rationing was not a death blow to car travel. ¶cards were plentiful;...
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