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Collectible Automobile 1990 October 1967-69 Camaro Lincoln Packard Holden Fordor
Collectible Automobile 1990 October
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1967-69 Chevrolet Camaro: Considered Response
Ford's Mustang set the automotive world afire when it galloped onto the American scene in April 1964. In fact, it forced Chevy to respond for 1967 with the Camaro, but Chevrolet had been toying with the "ponycar" concept since 1962, as Jim Smart notes.
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1934 Packard Eight Coupe-Roadster
By 1934, sales of Packard's Twelve and Super Eight had slowed to a trickle, as most buyers chose the lower-priced-but still costly-Eight. In Coupe-Roadster form, it provided an attractive escape from the harsh realities of the Great Depression.
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1949-51 Lincoln: Searching for a New Identity
In replacing the slow-selling 1946-48 models, a top priority was to strengthen Lincoln's weak luxury-car image. The '49 Lincoln thus boasted "Nothing could be newer" styling and a new V-8 -but as Tim Howley relates, the results were mixed at best.
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1934 Ford DeLuxe Fordor
Although the 1934 Fords didn't look all that different from the '33s, they featured a more powerful V-8, an attractive facelift, and increasing acceptance in the marketplace. And old Henry Ford took more interest in promoting his dandy V-8.
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1968-74 Plymouth Road Runner: Budgetus Hot Roddicus
Pontiac fired the opening shot in the muscle car wars with the hot '64 GTO. Imitators from all sides quickly charged into the fray, but Plymouth wheeled out the heavy artillery with the first budget-priced muscle car, the fast-and whimsical-Road Runner.
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1948-56 Holden: Australia's Own Car"
Prior to World War II, the Australian auto industry built bodies to be installed on imported chassis. But that would change after the war when Larry Hartnett championed an all-Australian car. It bowed as the 1948 Holden, as Dennis Harrison explains.
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