America's intervention in Worl War II filled the nation with a self-confidence that would fertilize phenomenal postwar industrial growth. The automobile industry never had it so good.
1949- Cadillac Serie 62
The fifties
The postwar fell-good factor made the fifties a decade of unprecedented leisure and prosperity. In this heady new world of television, rock'n'roll, nuclear power, and the space race, Americans reached for the Moon.
1954- Chevrolet Corvette
1959-Cadillac Eldorado
The sixties
The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change : assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, Camelot, civil rights, gay and women's liberation, a controversial and devisive war in Vietnam, the first manned landing on the moon, peace marches, World's Fairs, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom.
1964-Lincoln Continental
1965- Ford Mustang
The seventies
The seventies were definitely about excess. More was very definitely more - more hair, more height, more glitter, more guitars, more drugs. Moderation had ceased to exist.
The key to the Seventies was 'freedom', and some of its bizarre crazes were the first real manifestations of the advancements made courtesy of the social revolution of the previous decade.
1970- Chavrolet Monte Carlo
1971- Buick Riviera
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