The Next Look by bmac62
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This find took me back to my childhood and was one of the many postwar (WWII) stylish cars that helped turn me into a car nut.
Found this 1950 Studebaker on a quiet side street in Jacksonville, Oregon.
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"Perhaps no automaker is more identified with a single design than Studebaker with its 1950-1951 "bullet-nose" cars. The feisty South Bend independent didn't invent the "spinner" front end -- the 1948 Tucker and 1949-1950 Ford used similar themes, as have several European models. Studebaker's styling differed mainly in degree.
Ads called it "The Next Look," implying it would start a trend. It didn't, but that mattered little to company executives, who were content to chalk up sales unmatched in Studebaker's previous 48 years of auto production and in any of the next 16."
Comments (31)
junge1
In the early '50 a newsreel (Fox Toenende Wochenschau) always preceded the movie to be shown, The newsreel always started with bits and pieces of everyday life in America and one of the shots was showing traffic going across the George Washington Bridge in New York, including the sound of traffic noise (car horns). And there ways always a Dodge like this one in the picture, and each time i saw it I always wondered whether it was coming or going, because the front and rear windows looked almost identical! Nice shot Bill!