By Laura Packard, vice president of sales and marketing, American Collectors Insurance

America loves cars. Innovation, mass production and the lure of exploring a 3,000-mile wide country have combined to give the U.S. a century of automobiles of many shapes, sizes and speeds. In 2012, the love affair continues, unabated by sluggish economic times, high gasoline prices or any other bump in the road.

Cars are deep in the mythology of America: in poetry, music, movies, books and everyday conversation. In "On the Road," the 1957 epic novel of exploring post-war America, Jack Kerouac wrote:

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