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Collectible Automobile 1998 December 1959 Chevy Ford Plymouth
Collectible Automobile 1998 December
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End of an Era: Comparing America's "Low-Priced Three" for 1959
By 1959, three decades of competition between Chevrolet, Ford, and Plymouth to win the allegiance of mass-market customers clearly established them to the public as the top choices for low-cost motoring. Never again would their status be as clear, reports Michael Lamm.
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1966-67 Dodge Charger: Hamtramck's Faster Fastback
The long-forgotten shape of the fastback coupe suddenly returned to prominence in the Sixties as a symbol of speed and style. Dodge jumped on the bandwagon to create the Charger, a big fastback that could be as potent as it was pretty. Jeffrey Godshall takes us from the design studio to the marketplace to show why that was.
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1930-40 Cadillac V-16: "It Will Set a Million Tongues A-Wagging"
Since the day it first claimed to be laboring under the "penalty of leadership," Cadillac pressured itself to live up to the lofty status the statement implied. Then came the V-16, a lasting monument to that struggle. Richard Langworth profiles a genuine classic.
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The Last "Real" Hudsons: 1954's "Step-Down" Models
The innovative design Hudson introduced in 1948 was at the end of its rope by the early Fifties. Unfortunately, so were the company's finances. For 1954, Hudson's slim prospects were pinned on yet another facelift-and a merger with Nash. The results are recalled by Kit Foster.
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