I'm a huge fan of Art Deco stuff. Love it.
Recently I was wondering: what's the most Art Deco car? Let me suggest two categories: production & coach built.
Here's my vote.
Auburn 852 Boat tail Speedster.
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What's your vote?
I'm a huge fan of Art Deco stuff. Love it.
Recently I was wondering: what's the most Art Deco car? Let me suggest two categories: production & coach built.
Here's my vote.
Auburn 852 Boat tail Speedster.
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What's your vote?
I don't know if it's the MOST art deco, but definitely one of my favorite art deco cars is the Bugatti Type 57 sc:
Most cars from this era, like the Bugatti and Delahaye are more Art Nouveau than Art Deco. Same goes for the Auburn 851.
I tend to agree with Shawn. Very few manufacturers really leaned in to art deco with cars the way they did with motorcycles and trains and toasters and pretty much everything else. Most of what we consider "deco" cars are more art noveau cars. There were more than a few specials, like Norman Timbs Buick, that really captured the aesthetic, though.
And a special shoutout to the Crossfire SRT-6 that was maybe the most modern example of a heavy deco aesthetic in a production car.
The Derby Bentley is on the list.
The owner is a former UC Berkeley design professor and when his course went to art deco industrial design he based it around a single black and white photo of this exact car. 20 years later that car came up for sale. He didn't think twice.
Some really good examples already, and I guess I'm guilty of blurring the line ( in my mind ) between Nouveau and Deco. How about we open it up to good examples of both.
Good suggestions already (except for the Chrysler Crossfire because it's awful). I always like the 1937 Talbot-Lago Type 150;
Cord.
This one was at the Lemay museum in Tacoma, WA, some years back. Hopefully, they still own it.
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