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Memories from the late 1940s and early
1950s produce images of aunts, uncles and grandparents
driving bland, conservative Dodges, Plymouths and DeSotos.
They all looked alike to a youngster like me.
Suddenly in 1955 all that changed. Chrysler Corporation
leaped ahead of the competition with not so subtle fins.
A neighbor's new 1956 Dodge Custom Lancer two-door in
three-tone Sapphire White, Iridescent Charcoal and Oriental
Coral was very striking. Between the other neighbor's
three-tone Packard, our old gray Pontiac looked very
forlorn.
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Setting off the Dodge were those Lancer
"Spinner" hubcaps. Inside the first thing
one would notice was the push-button automatic transmission
panel called "Dodge Magic Touch Control".
Under the hood was the Super RAM V-8 engine. Dodge had
come of age and kept its' momentum through the early
1970s.
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