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Goes a Long Way To Make Friends

Check out those whitewalls!



This 1947 magazine ad for the General Squeegee has it all: beach babes, a mint-green postwar Detroit bomb parked in the sand, and the craziest-looking tires we've ever seen. Dig those parallel-groove treads and optical-illusion shoulders, cats!

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