The "golden age" of the Detroit auto industry spawned gorgeous works of automotive styling. Robert Edwards collects pieces of this art and his collection is now part of an exhibit called American Dreaming: Detroit’s Golden Age of Automotive Design, spanning the period from 1946 to 1973.
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| Packard 1953 by Ben Kroll or Richard Arbib |
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| Sketch by Rodell Smith |
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| Cadillac ElDorado 1964 by Wayne Kady |
See a trailer for the upcoming associated documentary American Dreaming.
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I can't believe the 50's are an example of good design. These cars all suck, are dangerous, inefficient, gaudy; the whole era is one grease ball clusterfuck. Death to the notion that the 50’s was a progressive, beautiful and insightful time. The drawings may be slick but the cars are highway boats. You dig the rebob, bring on the sixties, pleeeeze.
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