Autos
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Pontiac’s 1957 Star Chief stretched everything including expectations
The 1957 Pontiac Star Chief arrived in showrooms as if Detroit had been given permission to stretch everything. Length, chrome, tailfins, even engine displacement all…
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Lincoln’s 1961 Continental decided suicide doors were the main event
The 1961 Lincoln Continental arrived with the confidence of a car that knew exactly what it wanted to be. In a market obsessed with fins…
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Oldsmobile’s 1957 Golden Rocket concept looked like it skipped ahead a decade
The Oldsmobile Golden Rocket arrived in the middle of the 1950s but looked like something air-dropped in from the late 1960s. Low, sharp and unapologetically…
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Buick’s 1953 Skylark arrived like a celebration and refused to be subtle
The 1953 Buick Skylark did not slip quietly into showrooms. It exploded onto American roads as a rolling anniversary party for Buick, a limited-production convertible…
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A 1958 Edsel Corsair showed up with big ideas and even bigger expectations
The 1958 Edsel Corsair arrived as a rolling promise that Detroit could invent an entirely new kind of American family car, with fresh styling, novel…
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Packard tried to stay relevant with the 1955 Caribbean and nearly pulled it off
The 1955 Packard Caribbean arrived as a last, almost desperate attempt to prove that Packard still belonged at the top of the American luxury market.…
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Nothing about the 1963 Studebaker Avanti made sense and that’s why it worked
The 1963 Studebaker Avanti arrived as a last-ditch rescue plan for a struggling independent automaker and promptly ignored almost every rule of Detroit common sense.…
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Somewhere between luxury and excess the 1957 Chrysler 300C decided to do both
The 1957 Chrysler 300C arrived at a moment when American cars were growing longer, lower, and louder, yet few managed to fuse genuine luxury with…
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The 1958 Ford Thunderbird stretched expectations and the wheelbase
The 1958 Ford Thunderbird did more than add a back seat. It stretched its wheelbase, reinvented its structure, and turned a two-seat sports car into…
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Cadillac’s 1959 Eldorado didn’t just have fins it had opinions about the future
The 1959 Cadillac Eldorado did not just arrive with towering tailfins and chrome. It rolled onto the scene as an argument about where American luxury,…
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