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INTRODUCTION - FINS AND CHROME
Long ago and far away, there was a carefree time in US history.
It was the era of the malt shop, blue suede shoes, the drive-in movie, and pony-tails.
It was a time when Rock and Roll was really Rock and Roll, when a house in the suburbs and a two-car garage was the ultimate, and cost 15,000 dollars.
It was a time when every-one was young, and Americans had a great love affair with the auto-mobile.
In those decades, the forties, fifties and sixties, after a long dark period, America celebrated its youth, prosperity and vigor with an auto-mobile.
They were vivid, these cars. Never to be forgotten in their glowing colors and chrome. Never to be equalled in their speed and luxury.
They were brilliantly innovative with automatic transmissions, torsion bars, powerful engines, power steering, power brakes, (the country was power mad) and air conditioning. What was more, they were fun to drive - even easy to drivel.
lf anything symbolizes the cars of those times, it is the fin - the tail-fin dripping with chrome.
The cars were designed, many of them, to suggest a racy look.
The best were long and sleek with sharp, clean lines.
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