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[x-rod]

1960 #Valiant V200 Suburban #StationWagon Diseñado #VirgilExner en #1950s https://t.co/vMLm25Kyky https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1WtI1r8my/?utm_medium=tumblr

[coffeenuts]

1954 Dodge Firearrow IV (Red) by david g schultz https://flic.kr/p/2mJ2it3

[creativefilmcars]

#1959 #Plymouth #Fury (File number: 16468) #onlocation under the #BrooklynBridge for #fashion #photoshoot #shoot #nyc #production #proprental #creativefilmcars #productionlife #virgilexner #design #forwardlook

[coffeenuts]

1954 Doge Firearrow II (Cream) by david g schultz https://flic.kr/p/2mJ38bg

[creativefilmcars]

#1957 #Plymouth #Belvedere #fourdoorhardtop (File number: 13946) #onlocation for #fashion #shoot #creativefilmcars #production #editorial #productionlife #brooklynbridge #midcenturymodern #style #proprental #carrental #classiccars #fins #design #virgilexner #forwardlook

[oldmotors]

It’s no secret that I love Studebakers and post them pretty frequently - and later this week I’m hoping to get a tour of a #Studebaker collection (we’ll see), but many Studebaker posts focus on the company’s decline - this one’s from the last era when the company was genuinely healthy. This #1949 Commander Regal Deluxe Convertible - yes, that is the real name - was the flashiest and most expensive car in the lineup when it was new, and South Bend had pipped the entire car industry - worldwide - to produce the first totally new post-WW2 car just two model years earlier. The marketing line was “First by far with a postwar car.” The design had been done by Studebaker engineer with Raymond Loewy & Associates - but the actual styling was mostly done by #VirgilExner, though he got none of the credit and he and #Loewy hated eachother - ultimately leading to his departure to Chrysler. But that was still in the future. The new cars reached showrooms by late June, and at a time when every other manufacturer was churning out basically warmed-up 1942 leftovers, Studebaker dealers were in the position of having a brand new car to sell. They’d be joined by Kaiser/Frazer later that year but for over two years they were way out ahead of GM, Ford, Chrysler, and even the other independents. This turned out to be a mixed blessing - Studebaker could brag but in 1946 the public was hungry for any car, brandy new or not, and the money spent on the redesign might’ve been better spent later - but for the time being, Studebaker sold whatever it could build, and 1949 was the company’s postwar peak - 228,000 sales and 8th in the industry. Under the skin the prewar engines remained - a 169.6 cube L-head for the cheaper, smaller Champion, inherited from it’s predecessor, and a 226-cube L-head six for the Commander, inherited from the pre-war Commander, which had, unlike the old Champion, not returned for 1946. Eventually the #Commander Six was punched up to 246 cubes, which lasted until a V8, reportedly cribbed from Cadillac’s V8, appeared in 1951. By then, work was underway for the dramatic ’53s… #StudebakerCommander #trb_autozone #patina_perfection #ptk_vehicles #1940s #asundaycarpic

[hotrodhearse]

Move over! #chrysler #chrysler300 #chrysler300b #1956chrysler #1956chrysler300b #hemi #chryslerfirepower #virgilexner (at National Wind Technology Center)

[countymn]

1968 Imperial Crown Coupe (Spencer Iowa) $7500 | minnesota.allembru.com