You mention the emission's testing. Here in NY, it's more lenient for older cars. The inspection is cheaper too. With anything newer than 1995, it gets tough. 1996 and up with OBDII the State reads into the computer for codes and all must be clean.
As to new cars - and the year 1959 - I went with my dad to pick up the last new car he ever bought - a black 59 Ford Business Coupe 2 door. Three speed stick on the column with no synchros in first gear, manual choke, manual steering, no radio, vacuum-powered windshield wipers that stopped whenever you hit the gas pedal, and the "mileage-maker six" - with a whopping 223 cubic inches. He paid $1950 for it, brand-new. It was made not far from where we lived at the Mahwah Ford Plant in northern New Jersey. Supposedly he had friends working there that threw in a few "extras" into the car. What they were - I don't know. Maybe the heater? Paint? I got the car later and drove it up to the middle 80s.
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