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ANECDOTES FROM EARLY MOTORING

The tracks of automotive history before the World War II may be told best by folks who lived in that era. For example, take the case of “Gussie.” She was a short, pert, active lady who lived to age 98. She remembered her first car, the one she and husband Howard scraped and saved to buy. As I recall the tale, the car was a 1929 Chevrolet.

Gussie liked to manage things at work, a job she did quite well up to

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