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Vintage Cars With some comments from someone old enough to remember these cars! |
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| Harley Earl with the 1938 Buick concept car. Harley Earl was the chief stylist at GM for years. He introduced "port holes" on Buicks, tail fins, and lots of chrome. |
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| 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt concept car. WW2 got in the way of any further development of this car. |
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| 1951 Buick LeSabre- Fins and chrome leading the way to the "boats of the 50's". |
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| 1951 Hudson Hornet- You stepped down when you crossed the outer frame. |
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| 1951 Studebaker Champion- People joked that you didn't know if it was coming or going. |
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| 1953 Buick Wildcat- Some of these were sold to "normal" folks. |
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| 1954 Buick Wildcat II- Note the resemblance to the first Corvette's- and the port holes! |
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| 1954 Dodge FireArrow- |
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| 1955 Nash Rambler Cross Country Wagon- The seats folded down into a bed. A mobile motel room. |
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| 1956 Ford Sunliner- The speedometer was illuminated by sunlight from the back, through the dashboard. |
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| 1958 Edsel Convertible- An Oldsmobile sucking a lemon was an apt description |
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| 1958 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser- A co-worker bought one of these. We never stopped laughing. |
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| 1959 Chevrolet Brookwood Stationwagon- Sideways tail fins. The last of the chromewagons. |
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| 1959 Plymouth Fury- Chryslers answer to tail fins. They had the shift lever on the dashboard. |
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| 1971 Buick Rivera Boattail- After winning design awards for the 1963, 1964, 1966, and 1967 models, Buick came up with this. Coupled with strangulaton emission controls, they re-invented the "dog". |
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| 1951 Chrysler K310 -Chrysler's version of "the dog". |