1980 Oldsmobile Toronado Paint Colors
November 09, 1986|By Smithsonian News Service.
Fifty articles or casework from the aftermost half-century accept been singled out by the editors of Consumer Reports magazine, now 50 years old, because they ``revolutionized our lives.`` They are featured in an exhibition at the Smithsonian`s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City until Jan. 4. They include:
Air conditioners, paperbacks, air travel, pensions and Social Security, antibiotics, claimed computers, Austin/Morris Mini 1959, the Pill, automated transmissions, Plymouth Voyager 1984, black-and-white TV, polio vaccine, blush TV, ability mowers, bunched discs, refrigerators/freezers and acclaim cards.
Running shoes, detergents, assurance belts, disposable diapers, arcade malls, smoke detectors, fluoridation, Dr. Benjamin Spock`s ``Baby and Child Care,`` Ford Mustang 1965, connected dining (fast food), arctic foods, suburbia, G.I. Bill of Rights, supermarkets, bloom insurance, constructed fabrics and hi-fi`s.
Jeep 1942, Toyota Corona 1965, acrylic paint, transistors, LP records, cellophane tape, alluring tape, VA and FHA mortgages, Nash 600 1941, Oldsmobile/Cadillac V-8, Volkswagen Beetle 1951, Oldsmobile Toronado 1966 and washers and dryers.
