Postworld war ii domestic scene. The last class we look at suburbanization, and today what i want the look at is cars in the postworld war ii era, and i especially want the look at the mavericks, maverick car designers and automakers, automakers who tried to establish independent companies outside the big three who thought outside the box, thought unconventionally. I want to look at their impact, what happened to them, their influence on the field of the postworld war ii auto industry. And, you know, if america had a symbol in the postworld war ii era, it would have to be the automobile. I mean, americans love their cars. Theyre big. Europeans even make fun of them. They call them yank tanks. And theres a reason that cars, american cars anyways are have the look and the shape and the size that they do. And a lot of it has to do with one automobile designer, one sort of maverick automobile designer, and i want to look at him today. And i want to start by sort of, in a nutshell is, looki
Scene. The last class we look at suburbanization, and today what i want the look at is cars in the postworld war ii era, and i especially want the look at the mavericks, maverick car designers and automakers, automakers who tried to establish independent companies outside the big three who thought outside the box, thought unconventionally. I want to look at their impact, what happened to them, their influence on the field of the postworld war ii auto industry. And, you know, if america had a symbol in the postworld war ii era, it would have to be the automobile. I mean, americans love their cars. Theyre big. Europeans even make fun of them. They call them yank tanks. And theres a reason that cars, american cars anyways are have the look and the shape and the size that they do. And a lot of it has to do with one automobile designer, one sort of maverick automobile designer, and i want to look at him today. And i want to start by sort of, in a nutshell is, looking at some of the reasons