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August 29, 2008

 

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Custom Car, Near San Diego, California, 1981

Photograph by Bruce Dale

A woman in a custom-made classic car replica motors along a stretch of highway near San Diego. Car-crazy California boasts more than 15,000 miles (24,140 kilometers) of state highways, including some of the country's most scenic routes.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "America's Auto Mania," February 1981, National Geographic magazine)

 

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