#1940s automobiles

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The Studebaker Corp, 1947

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1940 Cadillac Sixty Special

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There are coffin cars, boat cars, hot tub cars, dragon cars, bottle cars, clown cars, tiny cars and giant cars: my collection of vintage automobiles is starting up.

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From the car files: the 1949 Mercury Eight sedan.

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1947 Cadillac Series 62 Touring Sedan Ad. Time Magazine, September 22nd 1947.

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"Traffic jam on the road from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard to Baltimore as the second shift of workers leaves the plant." Photographed 1943 by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.

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1947 Dodge advertisement

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1941 Pontiac

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1940 Ford Model OlC Half-Ton Pickup Truck Custom

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Packard Co. file photograph of a 1942 Packard nine-tenths left side view in an automobile showroom, female passenger in rear, man standing at passenger door. Inscribed on photo back: "Packard 160, super eight, nineteenth series, model 1908, 8-cylinder, 165-horsepower, 148-inch wheelbase, 5-person touring sedan (body type #1521), by LeBaron, 20th series catalogue rendering."

Packard Collection

National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Detail from a 1948 Bristol 2 Litre Saloon advertisement by totallymystified

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Chrysler Corp, 1947

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Today's tiny dinosaur driving a car. 

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Excavated: my collection of vintage dinosaurs, mammoths, and other prehistoric imagery.

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There are coffin cars, boat cars, hot tub cars, dragon cars, bottle cars, clown cars, tiny cars and giant cars: my collection of vintage automobiles is starting up.

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From the car files: a post-war 1946 Ford ad.

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Vintage blue. A classic late ‘40s Chrysler Windsor has it made in the shade.