Earl came from the custom body department of the California Cadillac distributor, basically. He was hired by GM in the mid twenties and soon depended on a staff of stylists. He kept binders full of sketches by others, that he referred to for ideas. But I never heard of him sitting at a drawing board himself.
Dubonnet Dolphin, apparently Flathead-powered: Image from an interesting article reproduced at Hemmings: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/...pers-powered-by-ford/#PhotoSwipe1431258885858
From another page at Hemmings: Looks like it's sectioned; and an interesting example of a "back-graded" Deuce shell.
That's not weird, not even semi weird that is Beautiful! And wonderfull car hauler for you HAMB friendly stuff.
Ooooof! Ya know Ned, if you just de-chrome that & square it off a bit you get the AMC pacer. The French certainly were ahead of their time, but that doesn't pay off if all you do is anticipate a future flop. This '52 Panhard began when a Studebaker, a Ford, and Packard met in a french alley....
A Russian two-wheeled car, found perchance: Meanwhile, I've been wondering about those early, tentative moves towards pontoon bodies. Incorporating the front fenders into the main body mass seems to have been the easy way, and experiments along such lines seem to have fit readily into the established aesthetic sense. Compare the Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow: Indeed, this became the standard American formula for the late '40s and early '50s. I'm more interested in those who tried it the other way around. These are fewer and further between despite that having been the standard formal approach when bodying omnibuses for years. An early example was the Le Mans Arièses: Not pretty by any standard, but I can't help wondering if anyone tried this approach with any aesthetic success?
^^^^^^ Bugatti Tank on the Type59 chassis didn't look too bay. By the way that two wheeler posted above was built in the UK I believe. It was buried, dug up and restored before WWII, and for some reason later scrapped. Bob
Maybe some kind of double exposure or something. How would it ever turn with a axle spread like that?
You know it would only take about 10 minutes with this vehicle at the local car show before someone strolled up and told you that his brother in law had one of those that he drove to college.
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