Tag: Automobiles
1938 Lincoln Zephyr Dealer Brochure
Cover from a 1938 Lincoln Zephyr dealer’s brochure
Willys Does it Better
1939 Advertisement for the upcoming 1940 model of the Willys Speedway
301.129 mph
75 years ago, Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the 300 mph mark for the first time while driving the Blue Bird V at Daytona Beach. Florida.
The Blue Bird V, was powered by a 2,300 hp supercharged Rolls-Royce R V12. The 301.129 mph record held until November 1937 when British driver George Eyston driving Thunderbolt, achieving 312 mph.
The current record is 763.035 mph
Nothing Suggestive Going on Here…
A 1938 Chrysler Royal convertible being serviced in this Standard Oil promotional shot.
1951 GM LeSabre & 1938 Buick Y-Job
1951 GM LeSabre Concept (top) and 1938 Buick Y-Job.(GM Media Archive)
The Incomparable Imperial
Details from various Imperial Crown advertisements from 1966.
Picture a walnut paneled office with leather upholstered chairs, copy transmitter-reciever, dictating machine, two telephones, conference table, typewriter, reading lamp, air conditioner, television set – and a 440 cu. in. V8 under it.
(ad copy for the Imperial Crown Coupe Mobile Director concept, which was for the car show circuit in 1966.)
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1935 Duesenberg Model-JN 560-2585
Clark Gable leaning on his 1935 Duesenberg Model JN 560-2585 Convertible Coupe
1935, Ford V-8
Detail from Ford V-8 advertisement in the May 18th, 1935 edition of Collier’s Magazine
Window Into Yesterday, 1948
Detail from Shell Oil Advertisement
“A window into yesterday? Looking back hundreds of millions of years? Why nother with what happened “way back when?”