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Cars Across the Decades


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Early model T touring car with an old-time brass radiator.
Three-door Model T from the early 1920s. The car had no driver's door, only the outline of where one should be.
Early 1920s Chevy
Ford, mid 1930s. Backseat "suicide doors" hinged in the rear and opened outward from front to back.
Ford Econoline van, 1977
Starsky & Hutch Gran Torino. Ford made about 1300 of these cars in spring 1976. Fewer than 100 are left. BP High School had this one for drivers ed. John Hoffa bought it after, and it's still in the Hoffa family.
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