He earned it, and deserved it

I am partial to the 1946/47 Ford pickup down the street, with the "waterfall" grille.

Representing Finnish interests in Utah?

Like Tony Granieri, my father was self-conscious about his WW-II injuries. He took 8 bullets in North Africa, and somehow survived. He was captured and taken to a prison hospital in Italy where he spent 6 months recuperating. Then he was sent to a Stalag near Leipzig, where he spent the next 2 years. All that time, he was listed as MIA, and the family presumed he was dead.

After the war, he was commander of a VFW post in Tiffin, OH, and late in life he was commander of an American Ex-POW post in Toledo, OH. He also testified before Congress about veterans' benefits.

Dad's abdomen was severely scarred, and he rarely took his shirt off in public.

The high-spirited look of this car and its sister makes from Chrysler Corp,, typical of the work of stylist Virgil Exner, clobbered the sales of the more ponderous offerings from front-runner General Motors -- to the point, by all accounts, of stampeding the latter into introducing GM's outlandishly finned 1959 designs.

Imitation, as has been said elsewhere, is the sincerest form of flattery.

So glad I grew up in the 50's and 60's and witnessed the glory days of the American automobile Yes, the were huge and impractical by today's standards but you must admit they were gorgeous. The music wasn't bad either!