Go back to when The Motor City boomed.
Detroit was a new and thriving city throughout the first half of the 20th century. When the Ford Motor Company experienced exponential growth through the 1910s and 1920s, the state of Michigan - and especially Detroit- grew alongside it.
By the 1960s, the American auto industry was at its peak, with Detroit as its capital. Muscle cars, auto shows, and car culture have been a part of the city's DNA ever since.
See Motown and the cool rides it produced in their prime.
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Tirst Ford Mustang ever built, now at the Henry Ford museum
1964
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East Grand Boulevard, Detroit
Circa 1960s
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Large crowds surround a car at the Detroit Auto Show
1968
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“The Biggest Auto Show of All”
1960 Detroit Auto Show
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Beverly Klemola checks out a sand buggy in Detroit
1968
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Traffic from the Detroit Auto Show leaving Cobo Hall in Detroit
1960
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Antique cars on display outside Cobo Hall, Detroit
1960
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A model poses atop a Ford F-100 truck
1960 Detroit Auto Show
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A promotional model poses with the Buick Wildcat
1965 Detroit Auto Show
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The Detroit Auto Show
1960
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1929 Ford model A
Detroit, circa 1960s
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Detroit’s automobile factory, 1950s
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My dad worked at a Ford dealership in Detroit. Everyone was pretty hyped about the Mustang. 1964
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A promotional model for Chrysler shows off the controls on the console of the new gas turbine
1964
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American Motors' board chairman Roy D. Chapin checks over the company's new sub-compact Pacer
1970s
