Beautiful Cars & Trucks

[Borg warner]

3 hours ago, Eric said:

1938 Buick Y-Job

The Buick Y-Job was the auto industry's first concept car, produced by Buick in 1938. Designed by Harley J. Earl, the car had power-operated hidden headlamps, a "gunsight" hood ornament, electric windows, wraparound bumpers, flush door handles, and prefigured styling cues later used by Buick until the 1950s and the vertical waterfall grille design still used by Buick today. It used a Buick Super chassis, indicated by the word "Super" located above the rear license plate.

The car was driven for a number of years by Harley Earl, until he replaced it with a 1951 model car. Sometime after that, the car was restored at the Henry Ford Museum, until 1993 when it was returned to the GM Design Center.

The "Y" in the name has two explanations:
    * All experimental cars were called "X", so Earl simply went to the next letter in the alphabet.
    * The "Y" designation was selected by Earl because it was used extensively in the aviation industry denoting the most advanced prototypes.

In 2001, Buick recreated the Y-job with modern advancements called the Buick Blackhawk drawing extensively from the 1938 Y-job.

[Borg warner]

Here's a picture of the Y job with the headlights returned to their hidden position:

Edited July 14, 2018 by Borg warner

[sdsnet]

[Burrrr]

Mid 1930's Packard, and Ferrari 458 Spider.

[G19 DB]

Beauty in the eye of the beholder...    I love my almost 20 yo pickup.

 

 

[MikeG36]

Some fantastic cars!  If I ever win the lottery.........

 

 

[Eric]

[Andyd]

BMW 2002. There was hardly a screw that I had not turned on that car. While it was not very powerful, being able to go 125 mph as a cruising speed was something few cars built in 1974 could do.

[Borg warner]

Not breath-takingly beautiful but not bad styling for 1954. This was a 1954 Kaiser, the last year they were made. They were fairly popular in the post-war boom when everybody wanted a car. But they couldn't compete wit the Big Three. Originally the cars wer Kaiser-Frazier and Frazier was the head of Willys-Overland. My dad bought a 1949 Kaiser-frazier in 1951. it was the standard 4 door sedan and not the "Voyager" which had the rear window flip up like a hatchback and the trunk lid fold down like a tailgate and then the back seat folded forward to make a bed for camping. In 1950 they started making the Henry J Which was named after the founder of the company, Henry J Kaiser. The Henry J was an economy car with a 4 cylinder and was only available  as a 2 door only an had no trunk lid and the trunk was accessed through the back seat.

Kaiser built their own 6 cykindr Flathead engine in 1949 and tried to develop a V8 but never went into production.  In 1953 they made a deal with GM for the hydromatic transmission and with Oldsmobile for the Rocket 88 engine but Oldsmobile couldn't fulfill the order. in 1954 the offered an optional McCullough supercharger on their 6 cylinder bu tin 1955 they went out of business producing only about 75 cars that year which were basically leftover 1954 models but with a new hood ornament. Kaiser's bodies were designed by Howard "Dutch" Darrin who had worked for Packard and Duisenberg and was top automotive designer in the 20th century.

Edited July 16, 2018 by Borg warner

[janice6]

On ‎7‎/‎1‎/‎2018 at 11:35 PM, Eric said:

At first I mistakenly thought this was the "Lil Red Wagon", but memory was failing me.

 

This is what I thought it was originally:

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[Lazy R]

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder

[blueiron]

Nice S-550. 

[Appalachained]

I’ve always wanted one of these businessmen’s coupes. 

 

Edited July 18, 2018 by Appalachained

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Naked streamliner.

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