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The Chicago Auto Show Wayback Machine
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: February 25th, 2014
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Courtesy of TTAC reader Bryan comes these photos from the 1989, 1990 and 1991 Chicago Auto Shows. A truly glorious era of cigarette advertising in motorsports, interesting concepts from Mitsubishis, plastic paneled import fighters and a body-on-frame small block sedan crowned as Car of the Year. Cars may get 5-stars in a crash test, 30 mpg on a highway and put down low 14 second quarter mile times for $25,000, but that doesn’t mean we can’t lament how much more soulful they used to be.
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That base model Saturn SL1 sedan? I still wonder the logic of letting Saturn rot for most of the late 90's early 2000's.
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