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, June 30, 2025

1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Sport Sedan

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The top-of-the-line 1949-1951 Lincoln was the Cosmopolitan .  I wrote about the 1949 version here . The 1951 Cosmopolitan is of interest b...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Studebaker Front Ends 1931-1939

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This post deals with front-end design treatments for Studebaker during most of the 1930s. The New York stock market crash of late October...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

Lady Cholmondeley's 1939 Bugatti Type 57 Berline

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Pictured above is the Marchioness Cholmondeley in her Bugatti Type 57 saloon built by the French carrosserie Figoni & Falaschi and deli...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

1949 Ford Models

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The 1949 Ford (Wikipedia entry here ) is the design I often use to mark the end of the 1930 (or so) to late-1940s American car styling evolu...
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Monday, June 16, 2025

Three-Segment "Aerodynamic" Hupmobile Windshields

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This post is an attempt to partly correct an error in previous posts.  In "Return of the Three-Piece Windshield" ( here ), and ...
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Thursday, June 12, 2025

1936-1937 Studebaker Coupe and Its Unusual Backlight Window

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I'm old enough that I remember seeing some 1936-1937 Studebaker coupes that sported an unusual backlight window design.  That was in th...
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Monday, June 9, 2025

1967 Cadillac Eldorado Walkaround

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Cadillac marketed models named Eldorado for half a century.  In my opinion, the most outstanding Eldorado design was introduced for the 196...
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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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