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In Carolyn Cassady’s short memoir, “Cars I Have Known”, found in a collection of short stories pertaining to women and their cars, Ladies Start Your Engines, Cassady, the wife of the famous beat personality Neal Cassady, recalls the different automobiles she has owned, or ridden in, that have made a significant imprint in her memory. The memoir can be broken up into three sections – childhood, college-years, and adulthood – in which a liberating movement for Cassady as a woman can be traced, and even though her growing independence is not directly related to the cars and travels of her memory, the recollection of the cars, and the times in her life that they represent, show how she became an independent woman in the age of feminism and equal rights.