The Family Car: Know your decades, Part II
This post is late - sorry for the delay. I wish I could give you some amazing reason, but it was just life that got in the way. Today, lets look at cars of the 1930's through 1942, when U.S. automobile production "ended for the duration" of WWII. In the 1930's, there are a a few milestone years: 1932, 1934, 1936 and 1939. 1932 is common seen as the "end" of the Classical era in car designs, and the bottom of the depression. What I mean by classical car design is that until the end of the 1932 model year, cars had been pretty much what they had been all along. A boxy passenger compartment, mated to an engine box, four bicyclelike fenders over four wheels. At the front of the engine compartment was an upright radiator. Out back, there was still no semblance of a luggage trunk as we know it, but there could be an actual "trunk" sitting on a metal rack, like this red 1932 Huppmobile. For all of its beauty, this "Hupp" is a...