My dad said in the fall of 1941 he bought a very nice 1938 Chevy.. This giving him good transportation through the war years..
Both my dad and moms families sold all there livestock late summer, fall of 1941.. Almost 2 train loads to the Chicago stock yards.. My grandparents leasing pasture, hay land, small grain crop land until after the war when my dad and uncles came back to the home places...
Dad saying grandpa telling about authorities coming out and taking scrap machinery and such, but paying going scrap prices at the time.. They never knew what all was hidden back in the shelter belts and gullies..
Then of course my uncles bought new tractors and equipment with there veteran preffernce.. And they bought tractors from all there buddies that qualified for equipment..
When I was a little kid, my dad sold the Chevy and got a 1946 Dodge...