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Rock "n' Roll, the Moon, Oil . . . and the Car.(Company overview)

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Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON

The stream of automotive history was already moving along when the first issue of Competition Press appeared in July 1958. Fifty years had passed since Henry Ford introduced the Model T and William Crapo Durant founded General Motors. The car was well established and fostering social change, urban sprawl had begun, and the Interstate Highway System was just beginning. Ferrari, Porsche and Corvette were already household words.

The post-World War II revival of motorsports was an accomplished historic fact. NASCAR had inscribed eras of Hudson, Chrysler and Oldsmobile dominance into its record books (Hudson was already a dead brand ...

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