Mystery solved! I stopped by where I'd seen the car (it'd been there two times that I'd been buy, I hoped it was still there) and it was there. :-) As I pulled up and parked behind it, I noticed details that only reinforced my impression of how beautiful it was. The shape and design of the rear fenders, the taillights, the rear window … That this is something special immediately resonated in my head.
It is a 1941 Hupp Skylark, a Raymond Loewy design that was the last expression of the other classic that I realized it resembled, the Cord. This is a set of gallery shots of the exact car I discovered on a side street in San Jose, based on the license plate number: http://www.vaultcars.com/1941-hupp-skylark A rare and beautiful piece of rolling automotive sculpture. Supposedly they made about 300-350 of them. Rear-wheel drive rather than front-wheel drive like the cord, it used pieces of the same body pressings, etc. A momentary vision of beauty… An era in automotive design disappearing quickly into the past. I feel somehow "privileged" to find it there. I wonder who it belongs to … It seems to have been sitting for a while. onwards! G Always keep your eyes open: it's amazing what you might see. > On Jan 19, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Speaking of cars: I saw this parked near my doctor's office the other day and > all I had with me was the iPhone 6. > > https://flic.kr/p/CJVRGi > > A lovely old car! Anyone know what kind of car it is? Really beautiful lines. > > enjoy! > G > > The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
