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Restless Sea's avatar

Great stuff Dave. Amazing how our country came together. My Dad, Iowa farm kid, was the head mechanic on the Santee in the Pacific. There was nothing he could not fix with pliers and some bailing wire. Never talked about the war til later in life when his ship mates starting having ship reunions. Truly, the greatest generation.

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Damian Penny's avatar

I believe the handful of cars produced in calendar year 1942 had "blackout trim" - aka, no more chrome.

Nash and the other independent car companies really let their freak flags fly in the postwar period. It wasn't until 1949 when one of the Big Three (Ford) came out with a really new design. Sadly, by the early fifties the "step-down" Hudson and the "forwards or backwards?" Studebaker were passe.

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