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, October 13, 2025

Count Mario Revelli di Beaumont: Independent Stylist

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When researching this post dealing with the 1937 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Berlinetta by Pinin Farina, I discovered that the car's stylist wa...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

1979 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz

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Following the 1973 Yom Kippur war and resulting oil price increases, American carmakers began serious planning to reduce the sizes and weigh...
Monday, October 6, 2025

1939/1940 BMW 328 Mille Miglia ‘Büegelfalte’ Fender Design

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One aspect of the rapid evolution in automobile styling of the 1930s was shaping of fenders.  At the start of the decade, fenders typically ...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Original Fiat 8V Berlinetta: A Photo Set

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In 2013, I posted about Fiat's 8V (its Wikipedia entry is here ).  A dozen years later, more images are available, so now might be a go...
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Monday, September 29, 2025

Impressive 1937 Packard Super 8 Convertible Coupe

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I live next to an arty town located around 60 miles (100 km) north of Seattle.  It attracts many visitors, some arriving in interesting auto...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

1958 Imperial D'Elegance Concept Car: What Were They Thinking?

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According to the article "Chrysler Idea Cars" in Special Interest Autos magazine's October-November 1972 issue, "Exner ne...
Monday, September 22, 2025

1939 Hotchkiss Cabourg Berline

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Hotchkiss was a weapons-making firm that added automobiles to its product line in the early 1900s, as its Wikipedia entry mentions.  By the...
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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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