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Collectible Automobile 2004 April 1971-3 Ford Mustang 1953-6 Packard Clipper Bui
Collectible Automobile 2004 April
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1971-73 Ford Mustang: Putting the Ponies to Pasture
Designed in the late Sixties to hold big engines and added luxuries, the larger Ford Mustang that came out for the 1971 model year soon found itself running against the winds of change in the market. There would never quite be anything like it again. Phil Skinner tells the story of Ford's ponycar at a crossroads.
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Middle-Class Values: The 1965-66 Buick Story
Buick's agonizing sales declines of the late Fifties were over, and steady increases in production were taking place in the early years of the Sixties. At middecade, the division hoped to lock in the gains it was making with a restyled family of full-size automobiles. John Heilig looks back on how they fared.
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1953-56 Packard Clipper: The One Twenty of the Fifties?
Beginning in the mid Thirties, Packard had gotten comfortable with the idea of selling an array of cars priced well below its esteemed full-luxury models. This practice came into question after World War II. One of those doing the questioning, reports Richard M. Langworth, was new company president James Nance, who wanted to follow a different path.
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20 Years of Collectible Automobileand Collectible Automobiles
In a special section devoted to our two decades of documenting automotive history, we'll display the covers of all our regular issues-and share the inside stories behind some of them. Then, Richard Langworth tracks the up-and-down market fortunes of a number of important collector cars in the years since 1984.
Personality Profile
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Arthur Fitzpatrick: Illustrious Illustrator
He's the "AF" of the "AF VK" team that created the striking Pontiac advertising illustrations that are still so well-remembered by enthusiasts today. Art Fitzpatrick turned his youthful interests into an award-winning professional career, and he's still creating car art. Vince Manocchi takes us to meet him.
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