Shape of Speed

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One of several exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum consists of cars. — Really, really wild cars. — Cars that will make you yearn for the days of extravagant tailfins and jet-blast brake lights. Here are some of the photos Jimand I took when we visited the “Shape of Speed” this afternoon on our tour of Oregon’s largest city.

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Published by Robert Craig Waters

Robert Craig Waters is a Florida writer. After leaving journalism in the early 1980s, he worked as an attorney, communications director, and public spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee for 35 years. He grew up on a family farm in Beulah, Florida, not far from the Alabama border, before attending Brown University in the 1970s. His mother's family traces its roots to Weaverville, North Carolina. His father's family is from the small village of Burnt Corn, Alabama, where Mr. Waters spent part of his childhood.

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