Celebrating Excess?

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page created: 09 July 2005

last updated: 01 August 2005

1949 Cadillac, the top GM brand, celebrating excess, forties style.

09 July 2005

1949 Cadillac

Chopped 1952 Mercury

Heavily modified 1952 Mercury Monterey

1968 Buick Electra convertible

1968 Buick Electra

Celebrating the automobile

Modified Chevrolet pickup followed by 1965 Ford Mustang

Chevrolet, is an iconic brand, with a critical cache in popular culture, as car, and cocktail, and line dance. However, this entry-level brand of the GM range has been undermined in the UK by its application to a range of Korean mini-cars.

Cruising Swedish/American style

Celebrating the automobile

Celebrating the automobile

1958 Cadillac convertible

The Cadillac has been celebrated in song

Taking the air from a Pontiac

Celebrating the automobile

Celebrating the automobile

1958 Cadillac with trailer

40's Dodge followed by 60's Pontiac

Celebrating the automobile

Celebrating the automobile

1964 Pontiac Catalina station wagon

A 1941 Buick 8, a model revived after the end of World War II, leads the parade

Celebrating the automobile

Celebrating the automobile

Unloading the Buick

1963 Cadillac in the lead.

The current Cadillac Owners and Enthusiast's webpage shows the contemporary mode of excess automobility.

Celebrating the automobile

Celebrating the automobile

Buick confronts Plymouth in Vastreras station car park

SAAB, now a GM subsidiary, produces an SUV, the current symbol of excessive consumption of resources, for the US market.

Festivals: the annual spectacular event

Informal cruising: the weekly routine spectacle

 

Power Meet Events 2005

May 28 Power Start of Summer Meet, Hässleholm Arranged by:
American Car Club Sweden, ACCS Eagles Car Club

June 18 Power America Fest, Nossebro Arranged by: American Car Club Sweden, ACCS Nossebro

July 7-8-9 Power Big Meet, Västerås Arranged by:
American Car Club Sweden, ACCS Åby Motorklubb

July 22-23 Power Hot Rod Reunion, Malmby (close to Strängnäs)
Arranged by: American Car Club Sweden

August 7 Power Meet Norway, Fredrikstad
Arranged by: US Cars Enthusiasts Fredrikstad

August 28 Power End of Summer Meet, Emmaboda
Arranged by: American Car Club Sweden, ACCS Emmaboda US Car Club

More information +46 40 472939.

Celebrating the automobile

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This page was constructed with assistance from the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, Cleveland OH

This page is maintained by members of the Odyssey Group

Stephen Little
Head, Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise
Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, U.K.
s.e.little@open.ac.uk

&

Len Holmes, Director,
The Management Research Centre,
London Metropolitan University,
U.K.
l.holmes@londonmet.ac.uk

 

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