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Residents recall
first automobiles
By Brian Minter
Times-Democrat Staff Writer
The Fauquier Democrat (like Fauquier County) looked mighty different 70 years ago.
The four-page paper advertised gum boots, face powder, turkish towels, 100 cakes of Star Soap for $4, spring hats, harlem oil and millwork (of all kinds).
And just like today, it advertised automobiles.
Back then you could get a brand new Buick for $1,125, a New-Day Jewett (now with all mechanical brakes!) for $995, and a Ford Runabout for the low low price of $225.
And a new car battery was only ten bucks.
Few people remember cars from that far back. But many of toda>’s county residents do remember the first car they ever owned, and how much they paid for it.
“It was a 1940 Ford,” recalled J. Willard Lineweaver, former and longtime mayor of Warrenton. “It cost $847. It was four doors. It had a radio and a heater and whitewall tires.”
“And no air conditioning!” his wife reminded him.,
“It was the only car I ever had that I put over 100,000 miles on,” Lineweaver said.
Warrenton’s current mayor also remembers his first car.
"I think it was an MGB,” said George Fitch. “When I was at U*r' University of Singapore in. «K8 ”
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