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...Take Ron Frantzvog. A television cameraman who shares a small West Los Angeles apartment with his brother, Ron is away filming a show in Hawaii, and this worries him, not because he misses his girl friend or his brother or his wormholed stereo, but because he misses his 1958 Porsche. What will it do without him, pining away in a garage? He writes his brother Wayne often: "Did you remember to pump the brakes?" (This tests the condition of the master cylinder.) Wayne agrees to show us the Porsche, deep in a carefully padlocked garage. He unties a silk-soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Where the Auto Reigns Supreme | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

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