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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PACE FIFTEEN | Luxury Automobiles Are Thing Of The Past (Financial Posl) If you had your eye set:on a Cadillac, Packard, Lincoln pr Buick, or even a less expensive but im. American-made car, you may ve to do a lot of waiting. The word from the trade, now that auto men know where they stand with Otawa's Sogo, i | jhst high-prices cars for have gone with the spending wind that whisked away so much of our U. 8. dollar reserves. The Post is told that the only cars available to Canadiang in any. like last year's supply will be low medium range products of Ford, General Motors and Chrys- ler. The way things look now, there will be just about as many Cana. dian.made cars produced this year as last (about 165,000; second larg. est on record). One manufacturer is even expect. ing to make a few more. But be. cause customers will be stepping down out of the higher.price class, there will be more people after them, The outlook, the trade feels, is for a tightening up all around of supply just when it looked like de- mand was beginning to catch up. But the only cars which will be available in volume will be Fords, Mercurys, Monarchs, Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobile 6's, Chryslers, DeSotos, Plymouths and Dodges-- all in the low or medium range field. « How many will be available for domestic consumption? Roughly 135,000 or about 20,000 less than last year. This is after allowing for loss of about 26,000 due to the U. 8, quo. ta and gains of about 6,000 due to higher U. K. imports. By midyear, there should be lots of English cars on the market; so many that it is being freely predict. ed that the $7.5 million import quo. ta will be eaten up in quick order. Here's the over.all picture as re. vealed in a Post survey: No Lincolns at all, at least for a while, That's definite from Ford of Canada. Last year, 230 came in. This saving will be used to take up some of the slack caused by the cut in imports of parts for Canadian. made cars. General Motors thas announced the same policy regarding high. priced lines. Last year roughly 7000 Buicks were brought in. None this year, for a while anyway; nor Cad. illacs nor Oldsmobile 8's. Packard will be able to bring in a mere handful--275 against 1,840 last year. Last year, one Toronto dealer alone took 150 cars. Hudson: for every six Hudsons last year, one this. What makes the austerity pill harder for Hud. son to swallow is the fact that they Dave a brand.new postwar car to sell. Nash is in the same economic boat although its prospects are con. siderably brighter in view of plans to produce cars in its Toronto plant. Kalser.Fraser has just about de. cided to forget about Canada until austerity blows over. Last year they sold roughly 7,000 cars, Quota this year: 1,000 to 1,200. In this case, a price factor enters 'the picture. Many K.P dealers have turned to other things, farm implements. Studebakers are going to be vir. tually nonexistent as far ag new cars are concerned until the new Hamilton plant starts to roll in midsummer. The idea is to conserve their dollar quota by not importing completed cars, to have more for Canadian production. Last year 9,000 Studebakers were imported. This year, the company hopes to turn out 3,600 Canadian. made cars. Approximately 26% of these are ear-marked for exports. The little Crosley car has been hit hardest of all: 1948 quota, a scant 28 cars. This is because they didn't appear on the Canadian scene until well into 1847, and the quota is based on the number im. ported during the base period, re. gardless of any other factor. To. ronto Crosley distributors were in Ottawa this week arguing their case. Whatever the outcome, there won't be any more Crosley cars for a while. To introduce Canadians to the Crosley station wagon, they plan bringing in nothing but this model. Cost: $1,675 delivered in To. ronto, Willys has decided against im. porting any more station wagons. From now until the end of auster- ity, they're going to concentrate on Jeeps and Jeep trucks. already notably OIL FROM EAST Throughout the war oil from the Middle East was supplied in large quantities for the United Nations. All oil from British sources was provided under British reverse lend-lease. Times.Gazette classified ads pay --Why not try one today? NTARIO HARDWOOD FLOOR SANDERS ® Laid e Sanded Old Floors Refinished! Variety Colors Reasonable! 51 Harmony Rd. South Phone 3434J or 4277J J. T. 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