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STEEL ROOF WAS HARD TO COME BY, AT FIRST

DB
By:
DAVE BARKHOLZ
June 26, 1996 05:00 AM

Car enthusiasts waited more than two decades after the 1912 invention of the all-steel automotive body to get a steel roof over their heads.

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