Art & Inspiration 1937 vehicles

I was waiting for the Huddon.
Those Terraplanes do it for me.

 

more from the web.......caddys are an old mans car??????
not in '37

 

I always liked the '37 GMC better than the Chevrolet.

 

Does someone have pics of a 37 DeSoto? One of my favorite deco designs - except for the aforementioned too-high headlights.

 

I'm in Michigan this week for work. Figured if I had to drive, might as well take my Chevy. And I checked around and found a local parking lot cruise night 15 minutes from my hotel, so I might as well go. Spent a lot of it chatting with the owner of the other 37 Chevy, and a guy with a nice 40 Chevy.




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off topic, but posted to show ALL the designers were thinking along the same LINES.
1937 cockshut

 

Does mock up stage work. I think the headlights are perfect.

 

yes and i agree, nothing wrong with those lights.

 

They sure look like an afterthought on the 37 DeSoto.

 

This is my 37 Cabriolet.

 

For years I've been saying that '38 Ford was the first truck to have a front opening hood. I stand corrected--looks like from the pictures that '37 Studebaker truck hoods open in front.

 

FWIW Chrysler fixed the headlight position in '38:

 

yes, but they need the bumper and uniform color to complete the lines.

 

37 Studebaker President

 

Since my first 37 Chevy Coupe in the 70's I was drawn to the Harley Earl Speedline Styling the these cars.
After the Coupe I have had several 37 Chevy Sedans, a Custom window Sedan Delivery (last seen on west coast), a Panel Truck (still around owned by a friend), a Custom Kingcab Pickup (now owned by my Son in Michigan) and one of my current rides a Chopped 37 Chevy Sedan.

 

I have always liked a BIG PAIR of HEADLIGHTS !

 

My favorite year for 30's trucks!

 

I'm pretty fond of my 37...

 

My 37 chevy gasser

 

Graham......

 

A few 37 Chevys from Meltdown 2016:









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not really fair to post this.......all Duesenbergs are cool.

 

I too have long felt that 1937 was the high water mark for automobile styling. Never before, or after, did so many manufacturers produce such a wide variety of fine looking automobiles in one model year. As has already been noted almost every model of every marquee contained superb styling. I had a '37 Studebaker Dictator and a '37 Coupe Express. They really made me appreciate the art deco styling of 1937.

 

So what caused this revelation for 1937? They start chlorinating water a few years earlier? A vaccine of some sort to fight right angles? Meteor strike in Mongolia? Volcano blow it's top in Malaysia? Gary