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Plymouth Perfected
The earliest post-World War II designs from the Big Three were futuristic looking from a 1940s perspective, but quickly came to look outdated as 1950s industrial design left Streamline Moderne behind for the jet age. Similarly, reliable prewar mechan
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Owner’s View
“Mom drove us back and forth to school, and I think of her hands on the steering wheel. And Dad drove us around for several years, using the knob on the wheel. There are a couple of little dings on it from things hitting it when my brother and I were
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Three In One
Ray Pile was a part of the immediate post-World War II generation of hot rodders. During the war, he was a waist gunner in Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacking Nazi-occupied Europe and afterward he returned to his home in Southgate, Californ

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