History Pre-Streamline Art Deco coachwork

1931 Talbot Berline - this was pre Tony Lago's involvement and came out of the Sunbeam Darracq Talbot conglomerate....

 

Thanks for the pics Weasel!

 

another Rolls Phantom...Belgium built body with the cool round doors....pic taken in L.A. Peterson museum basement

 

The "Round Door Rolls" (as it's known) is owned by the Peterson. The chassis is a '25 but the body was built in the early-mid 30s if I remember correctly. I went to the preview night where the curator of the museum, Leslie Kendall, spoke about it. My dad's a docent there, I'll ask him for more details about it.

 

They used the same tooling bought from Cord.

Barry

 

Ok Barry, that explains the timeline,...cheers

 

Brilliant coachwork by Million Guiet, I believe.

 

From that page:


Isotta Fraschini


Striking colour scheme on a Willys-Knight - though without the American early Deco trick of using a bright, contrasting colour on the underside of the fenders. Has anyone got any examples of that?


Packard 845, by Waterhouse. The Woodlites alone qualify it for this thread!

 

Bucciali won this one I think.



The Rolls is probably too Streamline, but the gold ornamentation is worth a look.

 

Also a bit later, but look at the trim on this Bugatti:


And the colour scheme on this Packard, by Le Baron:

 

Now thats some brave design for designs sake. "I know Jacques - Let´s slap a really bold black stripe down the body!" "Yeah!" (or rather "Mais Qui!").

 

Hibbard & Darrin, 1929 Stutz:

Interesting front fender treatment.

Dietrich, on unknown chassis; not entirely happy:


Brewster, Rolls Royce:


Brunn, Pierce-Arrow:


And a couple of bodies for 1933 Packard chassis by Waterhouse:



All courtesy of Coachbuilt.com.

 

1933 Rolls-Royce by Binder:


Early Figoni & Falaschi: 1932 Delage:


1933 Delage by Labourdette:

 

Talking of Woodlites, the 1931 Cord Speedster....

 

The colour scheme does it, too.

 

Bingo!!!

 

Shit fellas, I have a shop full of cars that meet what you're doing. 1002 Packard Conv. Victoria (production Dietrich body), and a 34 1106 Runabout. Niether are completed so no pics but I can find some later. Least we forget, the 40-41 Continentals harkened to those times albeit a decade later. The long nose, short deck, low waistline, chopped, channeled and boxed...wow, like a 50s custom!

Let's not forget the in-house design of Mr. Macauley's speedster (coutesy of Packardinfo.com)

 

Here's a 1929 Ruxton, next to a same year Pontiac. Factory chopped and channeled art deco?

 

^^Ya, Ruxton's roadster looks like an early east coast model A hotrod

 

WOW! I want that one! GIMMIEGIMMIEGIMMIE!

 

It's a Duesy!

 

I hear ya, brother, I don't even have enough Monet to make my Van-Gogh.

 

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I can't believe it took someone 12 days to come up with that.

 

Great Thread! Some very intersting stuff here.

 

Actually the Daimler Double Six 50 won Best in Show at Pebble Beach. . .I should know I did half the fabrication to the Daimler when I was at RM. . . . .I got a 2K dollar bonus for the win. . . . .Cheers my friend

 

This seems to fit in this category.

 

1924 Wills Ste. Claire featured copper accents:

Unfortunately the source gives no information on the colour scheme.

 

Streamlined, but not yet streamline: 1929 Auburn Cabin Speedster



These are from the Chicago Auto Show archive.

 

Wood-panelled 1925 Buick:

 

Interesting colour scheme on Bugatti Type 50:

Unfortunately not in colour.