It’s impossible to know for sure if it’s true, but it is a good story. In the 1970s, Ex-GM designer Richard Stout once said that the 1948 Buick lineup continued on their pre-war bodies because…
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Are the Stars Out Tonight: Studebaker Starlight
“The first by far with a postwar car!” the ads trumpeted. It was pretty much true, although the cars didn’t actually get into customers’ hands until very late in the year and they housed mostly…
Too much is not enough: 1961 Imperial
There had always been “Chrysler Imperials” – with the very first series debuting in 1927, just three years after the birth of Chrysler itself. That first Imperial was a badge addition to Chrysler’s existing E-80…