It would ultimately prove a highly influential, pioneering car, but the Chrysler Airflow was infamously too much, too soon. Its streamlined shape, honed in a wind tunnel and not just a designer’s imagination, spawned imitators…
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1936 Dodge: Origin Of The Ram
In 1920, just six years after John and Horace Dodge started building their own cars, “Dodge Brothers” was second only to Ford in sales in the USA. But both brothers fell victim to the Influenza…
1948 Buick Super: Last Of The Streamliners
It’s impossible to know for sure if it’s true, but it is a good story. In the 1970s, Ex-GM designer Richard Stout once said that the 1948 Buick lineup continued on their pre-war bodies because…