The "great finned one" was the
first car I remember. I was three years old (at right in the photo). We
lived in St. Louis, but my parents bought the
car on a lark during a trip to Fremont,
Ohio. They insisted on air
conditioning, a massive unit that hung below the dash, equipped with four
circular vents adjustable to shoot columns of frigid air anywhere you wanted. I
remember snoozing while stretched across the front seat, my head resting on my
dad's leg, as we made the 600-mile drive from St. Louis
to Ft. Worth to visit my grandparents' farm. We
were cocooned in comfort, safe from the blazing Texas heat just outside the glass. The car
had a cavernous trunk, a V8 engine with plenty of oomph, and a style that would
make the '59 Impala an American classic. --Scott S., Bethesda, Maryland.
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