"The space-age motif which guided design everywhere at Century 21 led to the suggestions that the cars of tomorrow, including the General Motors Firebird III would be shaped like rockets. What mattered most in 1962 was how fast and how stylishly one traveled -- not how much fuel was consumed or how much pollution was produced. (caption, p.247 in John M Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992. Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries, UW negative #1540.)

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