Do we run around Jimmy Stewart-style screaming in the middle of the streets, “This is awesome! I live in the year 2010! I’m going to drink in every sight and every sound, drive every car, visit every store on Main Street!” No. For the most part, we go about our daily routines and take for […]
While some boys out in the Pacific decided to rebody their Jeeps using aircraft drop tanks, Wally Cohn came up with a different approach. Much like Brooks Stevens with the Victory Car, Cohn envisioned a somewhat more refined automobile body to go atop the Jeep four-wheel-drive chassis to create a new offering for the post-war […]
The 1930s seemed to be the last great age of the publicity stunt for automobiles. Radio had already made inroads, and within a decade or two television would become the next great medium to reach the masses, but in the 1930s promoting new cars to a nationwide audience still took some creativity, something that Hudson […]