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When the 1956 Packard Caribbean tried to save a luxury empire
The 1956 Packard Caribbean arrived as a last, lavish attempt to prove that Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit still belonged at the top of the American luxury market.…
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How the 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 made horsepower mainstream
The 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 did something radical for its time: it took serious horsepower out of the realm of luxury sedans and race specials and put it in…
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Which 1950s cars became instant icons
Few decades reshaped the automobile quite like the 1950s. In a span of ten years, cars went from postwar appliances to rolling sculptures that mirrored the Space Age, the…
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The cars that defined status in postwar America
In the decade after World War II, a new kind of American prosperity rolled onto the streets on four chrome trimmed wheels. The cars that people chose to park…
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