Time was when automotive advertising images frequently placed an aircraft in the background, especially in the finned era of the 1950's. And why not? Both modes of transportation represented freedom, although of a different kind. The inference was that a pilot would prefer driving a car with in-flight responses and the car owner appreciated the joy of flight. Heck, I did the same thing in the late 1990's when, as a private pilot, I was also writing "he said, she said" test drives for Canada's leading magazine with companion Jody Ness. As a cover shot we had Jody looking pretty with the car, me obscurely in the background in the left seat of a Cessna 172 at Toronto's Island Airport (now renamed City Centre Airport). This week's Automotive Chronicles newsletter features cars from the 1950's and offers a delectable collection of brochures from that era. Worth buying just for the fun of remembering when two-and-three-tone paint was the excitement of the moment.