Our first family automobile was a blue 1941 Ford Tudor Coupe. It was purchased from Hinesville Ford in 1946. Until recently I had been of the impression that it was a 1946 but I now know that the 1941 and 1946 Fords were almost identical. It seems that sometime in 1941 or 1942 the automobile industry in America ceased building civilian vehicles in order to convert their factories for building Military vehicles for the war effort.
     I remember the day Daddy brought the car home and I was three years old. Now some 67 years later I am seventy years old and although I am not as steady on my feet as times past I still enjoy near excellent health. I suspect that is the result of the time in which I have lived and the conditions of that existence.
     Glad that I can recall the old days at the Homer Smith homestead in McIntosh. We did not own an automobile for the first three years of my life and my Mama never drove a vehicle until after my Daddy's death in 1973. In the old days of the mid to late forties there were only a few people who owned their own vehicles. I remember Daddy driving a company truck home from work in the evenings.