1958 Imperial Crown Convertible
Automotive pundits often sneer at 1958-vintage American cars. Suddenly that year, everything on wheels was bigger, heavier, dripping with chrome, and covered in more fins than a two-stroke leaf-blower engine. Gaudy? Flamboyant? Okay, yes. But that’s missing the point.
Despite the gloom of an economic downturn in ’58, postwar America was
