Just reading 'Rabbit Run' by John Updike and came across 'He gets out of his car, a '58 olive Buick four-door...'
It reminds me that (seemingly) all my life I've been puzzled how Americans can spontaneously identify the year of manufacture of their automobiles?
It's like the way they nonchalantly know if they're walking north, or south, or south-south-east - I generally don't have a clue what direction I'm heading in.
How do they do it?
