During the late 1950s, Raymond Loewy made a break from designing cars for Studebaker and went on a European trip, designing cars for Jaguar, BMW, and as we see from the January 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Lancia as well. The Loraymo, as Loewy called it, was based on a 1959 Lancia Flaminia chassis and […]
Ever since AvantiDon told us about the Studebaker Avanti sedan prototypes a few months ago, I’ve been longing to see them in person, and I finally had my chance this past weekend at the Glenmoor Gathering, when the Studebaker Museum brought both to their first public showing. As you can see from the photos, true, […]
For all the streamliners and teardroppers sketched out, put into clay and prototyped, very few successfully became the car of the future that they claimed to be. But they sure made for excellent copy for the newspapers and mechanics magazines of the day, and David Greenlees recently came across a small treasure trove of streamliners […]