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Show Farmers' Autos Average 8 Years The average American farm family drives an eight-year-old car says the TJ. S. Census Bureau. A survey of 5,100,000 farms and their transportation problems revealed re-vealed that about two-thirds of the farm families have automobiles and drive an average of six miles to their shopping center. These 3,400,000 families own 4,200,000 cars. About one-third of the farmers far-mers also have trucks, which average av-erage about eight years- old. One in 12 farms had a truck but no car. |