One other Possibility is that former truck or automotive plants and facility's could/ would be turned into some sort of production. Granted they may not be the latest and greatest of vehicles, but light afvs are better then no afvs.
Some food for though. Think about how little time it took for the US to tool up for WW2. Say with the disruption of the Nukes, even if it would double or triple. Eventually say like early 2001 its possible that there may be something like Improved Sherman's, Half-tracks, trucks and Prop-driven aircraft being produced.
We were really not much of an Industrial power house at the start of WW2. Get the steel plants and the railroads running again. Dedicate the smaller and older refineries to the wartime production (the ones that were not nuked- yes there are some that people are generally unaware of, one is/was near Casper Wyoming). Jobs would be had. Food could be shipped from the farms to the population centers by trains.
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