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Streamlining, it’s all the rage

Written by webmin

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 […]

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Tagged Alberto Gorgoni, convertibles, Dan LaLee, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Edsel Ford, featured posts, Frank Spring, McQuay-Norris, personalities, promotional vehicles, raymond loewy, renderings and concept sketches, streamliners and teardroppers, Walter Dorwin Teague  
 

Two weeks’ punishment: Hudson-Terraplane’s Ruggedness Run

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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 […]

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Tagged dealerships, featured posts, Hemmings Classic Car, Hudson, promotional vehicles, publicity stunts, road trips and cruising, Ruggedness Run, Terraplane  
 

SIA Flashback – Moxie’s Four-Legged Productmobiles

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We’ve seen the Buick-based Moxiemobile puttering around the swap fields at Hershey (and the Rolls Royce-based Moxiemobile a couple years ago at Amelia), but never got the entire story on the added equinity of said productmobiles until we came across Marc Stern’s article on them in SIA #68, April 1982. We wonder now exactly how […]

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Tagged Cadillac, La Salle, Moxie, promotional vehicles, SIA Flashback  
 

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