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Old April 15th 17, 02:29 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
DhiaDuit DhiaDuit is offline
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Default What Year Was This?

On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 8:07:29 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 9:57:07 AM UTC-5, DhiaDuit wrote:

1955 was when the cars got sleek/streamlined looking, body styling. Back then, new cars were usually put on the market somewhere around October/November of each year.


I remember as a kid the annual roll out of new model automobiles was a much anticipated event by young and old. Everyone would go to local dealers just to look at them. I miss the good old days, everyone was much happier back then.


Those big heavy cars were gas hogs, I owned a 1958 Oldsmobile station wagon.. When I drove that car I could steady see the fuel gauge needle heading for EMPTY. Cars and gas was much cheaper way back then, a dollar was worth much more than nowadays. The quality/fit and finish was terrible, the little foreign cars that were imported into America back in the 1950s forced the American car manufactures to improve the quality of American cars.