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As we continue our story of America\u2019s love affair with the automobile, it\u2019s time to look at the tailfin behemoths of the 1950s, the cars that look like \u201cguns you can fuck.\u201d With the automakers morphing into weapons manufacturers to help Uncle Sam win World War II, the postwar consumer reaped the strange benefits of military technology and imperial ideology seeping into the design of his suburban luxury sedan. Meanwhile, a cute little car produced by the Nazis was slowly stealing the hearts of America\u2019s budding counterculture.\xa0

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