> So… in the late 40s did teens get access to cars? In the US there were millions of cars from the 20s and 30s to be had for next to nothing. Buy an old jalop

> So… in the late 40s did teens get access to cars? In the US there were millions of cars from the 20s and 30s to be had for next to nothing. Buy an old jalopy, fix it up a bit and you have yourself a hotrod to cause the old people to clutch their pearls. By the 50s this was fully established in American culture. —edit— Should say that the returning servicemen were the pioneers here, hard to go from being a fighter pilot to just being a serious citizen so they took to motorcycles and fast cars like ducks to water.