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Newspapers couldn’t stop writing about it. Advertisers piggybacked off it. It was a multimillion-dollar car that promised to show the world something it had never seen.
EARL SWIFT is the author of the New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, which was named to ten best of the year lists. His other books include Auto Biography and The Big Roads. A former reporter for the Virginian-Pilot and contributor to Outside and other magazines, he has been a fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia since 2012.