The late 1940s was a magical time for many people in the USA. World War II was over and it seemed that prosperity was there for the taking. Manufacturing plants that had for several years switched to making supplies for the war effort now turned their attention to making things for a peacetime nation in a growing economy. That meant that there were jobs and with those jobs came prosperity.
With money to spend on a nicer house people began looking outside of the urban centers for places to live. This was made possible by a growing expanse of paved roads and a jump in the number of people who owned a car. With the cars and roads came freedom seldom before seen in this country.
While there were a lot of auto manufacturers in the country then, Ford and Chevy tended to be the most popular because of a combination of quality and affordability. For many people who were kids during this time, they remembered the car driven by their father or their uncle. That car held a special memory.
A little later, when these youngsters were grown up, they would often get the old family car. Or if they were looking to buy a car for the first time, the influence from those memories often turned them toward the same old cars.
So it is little wonder that car shows are peppered with Chevys and Fords from this era. In honor of Chevy’s 100th birthday this year, I thought I’d take a look at the 1948 Chevy two door coup. This was one of the sleekest and most beautiful of this era’s rides.
At the 1st Church of God’s annual car show at the end of the summer, there were not one but two beautiful examples of this magnificent car. Here is the first I couldn’t resist snapping some pictures of. As for the other, well, just a little patience and I’ll have that one for you.
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