Compare Your Car Repair

Among the papers found in our parents' houses were these two receipts for car repairs, from 1947.

Above: March 12, 1947.  According to Cash Car Buyer, "The average cost of head gasket repair is around $1,100 to $2,100."  Feel free to calculate a "repair price inflation rate" from that amount!

And this is from May 10, 1947.

See you on Monday, when we'll begin Trekking with Clipping, a month of Star Trek articles from my too-big scrapbooks of Trek nonsense.