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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, IN Text and Photos by Richard Menzies Before the rebel had a cause he had a car, and in America the fancy, frilly, yo of guy has found in a peculiar art self-expressi- form, the auto show. Just as the demolition derby has evolved as the only truly American sport, so has the auto show become a native art. Fantasies in chrome-plate- d steel and custom-plate- d naughahyde, afloat in a. fog of FEBRUARY-MARC- H, M i y angel hair, amidst still lift of antlers, wagon wheels, and bouffant girlfriends the kar kulture showed its' stuff at the Salt Palace last month before an audience of petrified spectators. The automobile exhibit, louvered Louvre of the motor set, drew visitors from all driveways of life and evoked varied reactions, ranging from reverent give anything to own youth that, or Do you think thats ugly?) to the silent majority, most of whom affected an atti (Id tude of suspended disbelief. While patrons milled about the showroom, two hundred cars waited outside in the parking lot, begrimed with pollution, dented and by road salt. While in i&recking yard in faraway Carbon County, artist and illustrator Richard Holdaway strolled among a few of his favorite things, pausing to admire the classic baroque lines of a 5JL Mercury, a customizers dream perhaps never since half-devoure- d 1971 |