The Chandler Automobile

This isn't mine, but I found it when surfing the internet of a classic car that must date back to the mid-1910's to the 1920's, being promoted on a poster stamp.



Not only had I never seen the poster stamp before, but I never even heard of the Chandler make until I looked it up and found another example of the Chandler Light Weight Six being advertised on a post card from 1915:



$1295 must have been quite a sum in 1915. In fact, adjusting for inflation, that would equal $29,062.49 in today's dollars.

I like the card! I wonder how they did that without 4WD? ;-)

The Chandler was built in Cleveland from 1913 to 1929. It was often advertised in the National Geographics of the 1920s, thus suggesting it was a premium marque.

A period ad for the Chandler. This time the price was a whopping $1785. I'm not sure of the year, but even if it was 1929, that would still be about $23,500 in today's dollars Must have been 1914 according to the newspaper link that follows, so that makes the adjusted for inflation figure to be about $40,152 in today's dollars (which would be pricey even today) and even moreso considering all of the "amenities" that the car of 1914 was lacking compared to today's vehicles!



Here's the link to a 1914 newspaper ad for the car:

http://archive.wmlnj.org/TheWestfie.../pg_0014.pdf

NOTE the white tires!

Don't forget, pre World War I, there was virtually no income tax, Federal or State, and no sales tax either; people had more discretionary income.