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Collectible Automobile 2005 February Story of the fastback in America 1971-80 Pi
Collectible Automobile 2005 February
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1964-72 Oldsmobile Vista-Cruiser and Buick Sportwagon: Different Outlook
What exactly served as the inspiration for the styling of General Motors's high-top station wagons may be open to debate, but-reports John Heilig-there's no doubt that the wagons with windows in the roof injected some new pizzazz into the old family bus.
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Playing All the Angles: The Fastback Body in America
Thought it wasn't invented in the USA, the fastback body style-in all its forms-has thrived here. It continues to do so right up to the present day. Michael Lamm explains the variations on the theme that have resulted in memorable American car designs for decades.
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Ford's Fractious Colt: The Story of the 1971-80 Pinto
Once Ford Motor Company chieftains decided that they indeed had to have an entry in the new smaller-than-compact market that was expected to arise in the early Seventies, they put the saddle on a fresh horse. Phil Skinner reins in the story of the successes and controversies that came along during the little Ford's lifetime.
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Changing Times: General Motors's Advanced Designs of the Forties
While General Motors styling vice president Harley Earl was still tooling around in the Y-Job, the corporation's sensational first "dream car," some of his staff was at work in advanced-design studios, conjuring up the look of cars for the Forties . . . and beyond.
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