Comments on: NO FENDERS ON NEW AUTO (Nov, 1933) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/28/no-fenders-on-new-auto/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Neil Russell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/28/no-fenders-on-new-auto/comment-page-1/#comment-651748 Neil Russell Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:23:38 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/28/no-fenders-on-new-auto/#comment-651748 Something the big auto makers wouldn't incorporate until 1948! I always think of the Hudson and the Packard as the first to have the body as wide as the wheels, but here it is in all its Depression era glory. Wonder how many they made. I guess it's those little hood vents that make it so "ultra-modernistic" Sleeping in the car must have been quite the attraction in those days, Nash cars came with fitted screens for the windows and mattresses rolled up in the trunk in the 30s and 40s and when the Airflyte models rolled out in 1949 they came with reclining seats. A big gas tank too so you could get from point to point without many stops, since there weren't many stops! Something the big auto makers wouldn’t incorporate until 1948!
I always think of the Hudson and the Packard as the first to have the body as wide as the wheels, but here it is in all its Depression era glory.
Wonder how many they made.

I guess it’s those little hood vents that make it so “ultra-modernistic”

Sleeping in the car must have been quite the attraction in those days, Nash cars came with fitted screens for the windows and mattresses rolled up in the trunk in the 30s and 40s and when the Airflyte models rolled out in 1949 they came with reclining seats. A big gas tank too so you could get from point to point without many stops, since there weren’t many stops!

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