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Post by nikonbob on Oct 6, 2006 18:45:20 GMT -5
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Post by herron on Oct 6, 2006 21:20:57 GMT -5
bob: Neat shots of neat cars.
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Post by Randy on Oct 6, 2006 22:05:19 GMT -5
I like that Caddy!
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Post by John Parry on Oct 7, 2006 18:08:02 GMT -5
When I saw the title I presumed I was looking at Oldsmobiles... But Randy has totally thrown that line of thinking!!
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Oct 7, 2006 19:04:09 GMT -5
Nice pictures. Bob. Sorry to appear a bit of a Phillistine, but I'm afraid most American car styling of this era just doesn't do much for me. But I love some of the engineering that went into them. At least five years ahead of contemporary UK chassis design - except for roadholding, but I guess there aren't many bends in the long roads across the praries. I quite like the lines of number 1, the Cadillac. Nice clean lines of the 1940s (??) before too much chromium plate got hung on to bodies. The styling of the next one isn't bad. At least it hangs together as an entity - except for that hideous front bumper! But number 3, the Bentley, now THAT'S a car to stand and look at for ages. Classic style of the late 1920s brought up to date in the late 1930s. The proud chromium plated radiator, the huge P100 headlamps, the chromium Windtone horns, the spotlight, the badge bar, and the severe counterbalanced front bumper. They don't style 'em like that any more. Compare it with number 4 (sorry to be ignorant, but what is it?). Similar theme in a way, but for me the styling of number 4 just doesn't hang together. The designer made an attempt to give it a rakish look with those long flowing front wings (fenders), and a long bonnet (hood) - straight-eight? But it's got a radiator shell reminiscent of one from a Ford truck just glued on the front. As for that cow-horn front bumper ? From the back of the bonnet backwards it's a mess. Too boxy for the front, 1920s-style scuttle-mounted sidelamps, a high waistline emphasised by a prominent flash line that doesn't go anywhere except to a funny looking scolloped drop-down to a chunky box-like luggage trunk. Sorry, guys, but nah! It reminds me of some cut-and-shut Custom jobs built by people whose practical skills are way ahead of their eye for good design. Still, as someone said in another thread, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Useless information time: If anyone's interested the Bentley's a 4 1/4 litre chassis, built at Crewe in the UK Midlands. It's not the standard body, and I don't think it's by Park Ward (the London bodybuilder owned by Rolls-Royce/Bentley) but it's difficult to say who built it from the outside view. There's something Mulliner-ish about it, but it might just possibly be an early post-war replica body by Southern Coachworks. If the UK registration plate is original it was first registered in East Sussex, in the south of the UK, in October or November 1937. PeterW
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Post by GeneW on Oct 7, 2006 19:42:53 GMT -5
Bob, I'm not a very car-oriented person, but these are interesting shots of vehicles from another era.
Gene
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 8, 2006 11:22:37 GMT -5
PeterW
Sorry, but I can't say what #4 is, at a guess maybe a Packard? Along the same lines I think #2 is an Auburn? I was too busy taking photos before they left that morning being late to find out that they were even in town. I did manage to talk to the owner of the Bently and as I recall it is the only one of this model, restored and running, in North America. Yup, we have different eyes but you sure do have a good and enjoyable critique form.
Bob
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Post by herron on Oct 9, 2006 11:32:18 GMT -5
Would that be an old Dusenberg? It looks like it could be similar to some of the cars on this link
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