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Style: Streamlined Moderne
Dooling Mercury First Series Front Drive Tether Car 1939
By Dooling Brothers
Located in Hampstead, QC
This is a Dooling Mercury First Series tether car built in 1939 by the Dooling brothers, Tom, Russell and Harris. They began building racers in 1937 for their own pleasure. These e...
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1930s American Vintage Streamlined Moderne Folk Art

Materials

Aluminum, Metal

1940s Tether Car Powered by Original Super Cyclone Engine
By Rexner
Located in Hampstead, QC
This original 1940 Rexner Zipper Tether Car Racer with its streamlined design is in excellent condition. It is powered by a Super Cyclone .60...
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Early 20th Century American Streamlined Moderne Folk Art

Materials

Aluminum

1930's Art Deco Streamline Arrow Plane Car Design Study Model
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A plaster design study attributed to an artist designer at the Hill Auto Body Metal company based in Cincinnati Ohio . The company specialized in streamline equipment for airplanes and would periodically go into the automotive field with race cars and streamline bodies . This study may be based on the 1932 rear engined teardrop car called the Arrow Plane for customer Lyman Voelpel a wealthy Chicagoan and may have served as inspiration for six McQuay-Norris Cars built during that period and into 1934. The bodies were aluminum over a steel and wooden frame work and has Ford under pinning's including suspension , brakes and V8 engines...
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Mid-20th Century American Streamlined Moderne Folk Art

Materials

Plaster

Late 1940s American Amusement Park Car, "Little Red Convertible"
Located in San Francisco, CA
American amusement park car, "Little Red Convertible." A late 1940s streamline design similar to a Packard or Hudson of this post war era. Solid rub...
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Mid-20th Century American Streamlined Moderne Folk Art

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Aluminum, Steel

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