Classic American

Americans at the Motor Show The Last Years of the Big Yanks and the Swinging Sixties

By 1968, American cars were starting to get a fairer hearing from the notoriously conservative British motoring press, but it was all a bit too little, too late, as the demand for big, powerful North American motors started to dwindle with the first signs of a recession showing since the war. Cars such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Corvette, Camaro and Rambler Classic were put forward as practical alternatives to British and European cars on offer, but policy changes by the US

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