The fallout of the Great War and the period which stretched in between the two wars, brought in its own share of joy, prosperity as well as sorrow and misery for the Americans. The period was a bundle of contradictions as it encapsulated triumph as well as adversity. The period of renewal which followed the end of the First World War was beset with a sense of a new euphoria which characterized the 1920s as it came to be known as the Roaring Twenties. On the economic front, the “affordable automobiles may be one of the strongest manifestations of this ideal”.