Google archives LIFE photos -- classic wheels included
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It was a simpler time, a happier time, when the American auto industry was bubbling with pride and Cadillacs had useful extras such as shower attachments. This picture comes from LIFE magazine’s online archive, hosted by Google. There are millions of amazing photographs. Some have never been published and are now available for the first time.
As a way of doing some quality net surfing, this user experience can’t easily be beat. And there are plenty of gems for car lovers, including the first Rolls-Royce and a shot of Steve McQueen in his beautiful Jaguar XK-SS. There are hot rods, Jeeps, Ferraris, all sorts. Although there is a major blunder: Argentine racing icon Juan Manuel Fangio is first described as Mexican and then his Lancia car is called a Lancie. But we’ll have to forgive them because there’s such a magic to many of these images.