I should have kept it. :smack:
Lot of memories in that 56. 
Yeah, but the one in that link is really cherry.
Mine was a real cherry picker.
I subscribe to a (paid) newspaper database. I can read papers from 1750-date.
I just found one advertising the new 1956 VW, saying it got 40mpg. This was an ad, so I can’t vouch for the accuracy of their claim.
Lots of great info here! Thanks, folks.
One more specific target that’ll jump a couple of decades: can anyone tell me what the original cost might have been for a 1975 Plymouth Gran Fury Police Interceptor? ISTR something around $6000.