Just a page flip away - a journey down memory lane for car lovers
Up for auction at a Connecticut art gallery in April will be a collection of some 13,500 car marketing brochures garnered by a retired travel agent since 1946.
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STEVE Hayes was 9 when, after a death in the family, his parents sent him to Maine to visit a cousin. To keep their charge occupied, the relatives took him to the local car dealerships to see the new models.
It was summer 1946, and America had gone car-crazy as vehicle production resumed after World War II. Pent-up demand for new cars far exceeded supplies, so many models were not available, but prospective customers could at least drop by a dealership for a whiff of new-car smell and a sales brochure to stoke their dreams. "We visited half a dozen dealerships in and around York, and picked up brochures," Mr Hayes, who will soon turn 80, recalled recently. "One for them and one for me."
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