Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the boxiness, the unattractive utilitarian interior, the bumps and various other discomforts, the effort to do anything over 40 m.p.h. of a small European car, the 1958 U.S. cars, chrome and all, are perfection...
Some 20,000 U.S. drivers own antique or classic cars, and their number is growing fast. The Horseless Carriage Club, for owners of cars produced prior to 1916, has jumped from 350 members in 1944 to 7,500 today. The Classic Car Club, for owners of fancy cars of 1925-42 vintage (mostly Packard Eights and Twelves), counts 1,700 members, will add 300 this year. The aged-auto fad has claimed many VIPs. Among them: Dwight Eisenhower, who used to enjoy relaxing in his mother-in-law's high, stubby 1914 Rauch & Lang Electric until it was sent...
...car buffs buy the Maxwells. Cords. Hupmobiles. Mercers. Briscoes. Flints. Kissels and Jewetts for as little as $100. spruce them up to sell for as much as $10,000. But the restoration job is expensive, requires an average of 1,800 hours to do it properly. The restorers scrounge for unused parts in old garages and specialty shops, often rebuild every major part...
...vintage auto clubs also help to keep the craze alive by emphasizing authenticity and quality. The Classic Car Club recognizes only blue-blooded autos of "fine design, high engineering standards and superior workmanship." Regardless of age. it blackballs all Chevrolets, Plymouths. Xashes. Dodges, Pontiacs, Buicks. Oldsmobiles and De Sotos. even turns down some Cadillac models. Recently the club even refused to admit Ford's modern Continental Mark II as a "classic...
Fire One, Fire Two . . . In Wilmington, Ohio, fed up with his in-laws' habit of dropping in and pilfering his groceries, James Ingram sprayed revolver shots at their car as it drew up, missed his mother-in-law, father-in-law and two brothers-in-law, ended up in jail...