Car Style Critic

A blog about automobile styling. The emphasis is on history, but the appearance of current production and concept cars will be evaluated as well.

Monday, August 18, 2025

1955 Packard 400 Hardtop Coupe Walkaround

Packards were restyled for model year 1951, allowing "pillarless" hardtop coupes to be added to the line. Through model year 195...

Thursday, August 14, 2025

1961 Dodge Dart Seneca Sedan Walkaround

My post "Dodge's Odd 1961 Facelift" featured hardtop coupes. Now I'm following up with a walkaround of a 1961 Dodge Dart...

Monday, August 11, 2025

1949 Small Lincoln in Context

For model years 1949-1951 Ford Motor Company's Lincoln brand featured two separate body platforms. Topping the Lincoln line was the Cos...

Thursday, August 7, 2025

1962 Plymouth's Evolution

The focus here is how the controversial styling of the redesigned standard size Plymouth was facelifted in more conventional directions ove...

Monday, August 4, 2025

Alvis Airline Sports Saloon by Bertelli

RM Sotheby's 2025 Monterey auction offerings included the Alvis "Airline" Sports Saloon pictured in the Gallery below. Its we...

Thursday, July 31, 2025

1952 Kaiser Manhattan Club Coupe - Brief Walkaround

Kaisers (Wikipedia entry here ) were redesigned only once, for the 1951 model year. I wrote about the 1951 Kaiser redesign here . Previous...

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Donald Pittenger: Undergraduate art major. Ph.D. in Sociology, Demography from a fancy Ivy university. Software system and user interface designer and programmer. Writing about art and design on the Internet since 2005. Email: dbpittenger (at) earthlink.net

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