Labor was a lot cheaper and old cars were a lot easier to fix. Furthermore, all of this was made cheaper by lower standards of safety in the day. You could just bend an axle or a rim back into shape, dump oil on the ground, paint without a respirator, etc, etc, and nobody would screech about it on Reddit. (Cost of compliance is a huge driver of overhead in the automotive business in case anyone was unaware)

Not in the early 20th century, not to mention the fact Oprah is a woman.

Oprah is/was grown, article is about a child