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Originally Posted by Seth Swoboda
Dave, it seems like the 1930's saw some pretty accelerated advancements in automotive design and styling. To me anyway. Prior to that automotive tech was slow to develop and after WWII the styling was not as exciting. Maybe the post war tech was better? Some thoughts I had. You having worked in the auto industry, although much later, might have some insights?
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back in like 2005 we had our car at the Hilton Head Concours and the guest speaker for the banquette was the lead US designer for BMW of America and he spoke on the evolution of styling and influences of styling on cars which was MOST interesting to me. As he illustrated, by drawing on an overhead projector, the teens and twenties car design was influenced by houses/buildings, the thirties was influenced by boats......I was very very interesting to see him draw out the influences and turn them into car design.