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    The Automobile played a big part in the way people go to place to place and it also played a part in the economy and the rapid growth in the United States in the twentieth century. With the higher incomes, it meant that people had money to spend on cars and goods. The inventing of the automobile was the greatest thing people have come up with because know that is the only way people get around these days. People during this time mainly lived on farms and did not have a fast way to get into town

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    The automobile industry is known for its constant remodeling and change from year to year. While there are not generally drastic changes, there are societal and cultural changes that affect the styling of the automobiles that companies produce. Beginning in the 1970 's there were drastic changes in society that completely altered the products ' car companies were distributing, such as the change from muscle cars to smaller fuel efficient economy cars. As time progressed the evolution of popular

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    The Negative Effects of Automobile Emissions Pollution Charles Dickens wrote about the dirty conditions of London, England by saying, "Smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes – gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun . . . Fog everywhere . . . fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city" (Qtd. Langone

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    The AMC Pacer

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    looking vehicles throughout the 1970s. In the first quarter of the decade AMC wanted to try something different by designing a car around the people that used it. The Pacer looks different, because they developed it from the inside out. Join me as we uncover the thought process behind the automobile. We'll also review the history of the Pacer and some interesting special editions. Finally, we'll talk about a small group of collectors that have elevated the automobile into something you might not expect

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    Motor Tuning History

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    slipped from essentially street going vehicles or made from pure blood dashing cars came to overpower races, for instance, Le Watches out for and the Mille In national rather than overall hustling, diversions auto competition in the 1950s and mid 1960s tended to reflect what was locally standard, with the cars that were productive locally much of the time affecting each nation's approach to manage fighting on the general stage. In the USA, imported Italian, German and English cars battled adjacent

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    stirs up a topic is automobiles or cars. 1950s American automobile culture has had an enduring influence on the culture of the United States, as reflected in popular music, major trends from the 1950s and mainstream acceptance of the "hot rod" culture. The American manufacturing economy switched from

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    Cars In The 1920's

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    History of the 1920’s Automobiles In this day and age cars are a part of everyday lives, but where did the understanding of the “modern car” come? This is not about the first car made, but rather the sparkle, speed and that which is the epitome of luxury cars. About how the 1920’s affected the way cars are built and designed today due to the innovations and inventions during this Era. The Auto Industry was merely beginning to spark in the early 20’s, but that didn’t stop Henry Ford from dominating

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    advertisement strategies kept increasing more consumers and was proven to be effective. This transition changed into a more civilized system, it changed the way individuals lived. In “Remaking Leisure in Middletown (1929)” Sociologists Robert Lynd (1892-1970) and Helen Lynd (1896-1982) were two individuals who “wanted to study the effects of modernization [on individuals living in the urban community]”

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    she analysed the unstable of world scale dynamics of labour. Till this second section, the readers have understood a bit more about labor movements, focused on the leading capitalist industry of the twentieth century. The third part she used “The Automobile Product Cycle” graph as a description that vary of

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    Introduction The first gasoline powered automobile was built 1885 in Germany. The first car was engineered by Henry Ford in 1896. He took things a notch higher by establishing an assembly line which enabled him to mass produce the vehicles thus making them affordable to the consumers. The use of automobiles has since increased in the US and other parts of the world. By 1999, the US alone had over 200 million passenger cars and light trucks. The number of cars worldwide grew thrice faster than

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