Comments on: What will Your Next Car Look Like? (Feb, 1931)

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:43:04 +0000

Jacek: Let me correct what you wrote. Look real carefully at the year this article was written.

By: Jacek

Jacek — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:03:07 +0000

Hi,
I read your blog recently and want to correct what you wrote about Constantinesco. Constantinesco was a Romanian engineer and he invented his transmission not few years ago but 90 years ago!! He produced cars (exhibited at Motor Shows in Paris and London in 1925) and lienced his technology to GM. He was also inventor of other 200 odd patents including machine gun synchroniser used on allies aircraft in the 1st world war.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:53:02 +0000

Hey that looks like a vw bus, rear engine, sitting all the way up front…

By: Automobilia

Automobilia — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Constantinesco was a romanian engineer (not greek).

By: Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:14:35 +0000

Now come on. Clark Gable can wear anything he damn well wants to.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:07:12 +0000

Spats protect your shoes from mud splashes. They were originally called “spatterdashes,” a marvelously onomatopoeic word.

By: Tracy B.

Tracy B. — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:13:56 +0000

I thought that spats or gaiters was a technique to cover up worn out shoes or are they to snakeproof the ankles?

By: Toronto

Toronto — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:12:54 +0000

Spats are poised for a huge comeback, after the Chinese cut off our supply of socks.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:09:44 +0000

Note that the man in the illustration on page 2, despite his “car of the future,” is still wearing spats.