Auto Review The other US car makers Album

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The Auto Review series has covered all the principal smaller US car-making groups of the postwar era; Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, American Motors, Studebaker-Packard, and it is gradually working its way marque by marque through the ‘Big Three’ (General, Motors, Ford and Chrysler). In these shark-infested waters there were minnows which attempted to compete for postwar US car sales. Some, like Checker, found a profitable niche market, and theirs is the longest story told here, including its prewar days. Some tried to undercut the market with inexpensive cars, even home-built kit-cars, but others had

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