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Recently I received my copy "American
Dream Cars" by Frumkin and Hall, from Krause Publications. Certain
sections took me back to my boyhood, when as my mother might have said, "The boy
eats, drinks and sleeps cars."
While pulled to
the Buicks of the early 1950's and the early Caddies, some of the most beautiful
products those two ever created, I keep returning to the pages on
Chrysler.
As I look at
the 1951 -310, the 1952 C-200, the 1953 Special Sports Coupe, the 1953
D'Elegance, the 1955 Flight Sweep Series and the 1955 Falcon, I all but
drool. The 1954 Dodge Firearrow series is magnificent, as is the 1954
Plymouth Explorer.
These cars
are still "modern" and contemporary by today's standards, exquisite examples of
the creative beauty automobile designers were capable of at the time.
Perhaps I am "getting old", but I just do not see that type of individualistic
design creativity in today's cars.
Vince in Boston
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