John F

Dad's view through the windshield:

My family owned a 1956 Pontiac with factory air. My memory is of the heavily tinted blue windows and the chrome ball sockets on the dash. We took that two-tone beast to Germany in 1959 and from there to Paris in 1961. The French authorities made Dad remove the airplane hood ornament and install yellow headlights. We were a family of 6 and pulled a folding trailer through the alps and down the coasts of Italy each summer. Specifically about the airconditioning, Dad said it ended up just "blowing dust". We left that car in Paris when we moved to Seattle in late 1962. R.I.P.