It didn?t take much to wow the public with a concept car back in the 1950s and ?60s. Take an aircraft-inspired shape, insert a jet engine?or just the illusion of one?fit a glass bubble top, put a Doris Day look-alike in the driver?s seat, and voilà?you?d stolen the show and set thousands of impressionable minds to dreaming. Those days were fleeting, however, as the social/political/economic climate would soon take a turn for the worse, replacing hopeful optimism with bitter cynicism and ushering in the practice of pairing brown corduroys with brown shoes. Those were dark days, friends. READ MORE ??
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