Solved - NTM #19 "Art and Cars": Peter Arno & the Albatross

[ftg3plus4]

Nope.

He's much more well-known for his art than the car (which I'm assuming is not the case with the Gaylords).

[Ray B.]

So: an illustrator?

[Ray B.]

Or a comic strip artist?

[ftg3plus4]

Or a comic strip artist?

Not quite, but that's the closest anyone has gotten so far.

[Ray B.]

All right, allow me to sum up your answers:
2-D visual artist, not a painter, the closest being comic strip (or comic book, meant I) artist, and, not an illustrator.

What's left? A cartoonist, like Chas Addams of my own A&C#19?
I am in that line of work myself and and can't figure what else.

EDIT: Don't bother replying. I found him. I just need to find the car now.

[ftg3plus4]

All right, allow me to sum up your answers:
2-D visual artist, not a painter, the closest being comic strip (or comic book, meant I) artist, and, not an illustrator.

What's left? A cartoonist, like Chas Addams of my own A&C#19?
I am in that line of work myself and and can't figure what else.

Yes, a cartoonist like Mr. Addams. In fact, if I'd known that's who the subject of your A&C was, I might have waited longer before posting this puzzle!

EDIT: Too late, I already replied!

[Ray B.]

It's the New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno, and the car is the Albatross, a car he designed and had built.  It was last seen parked at a gas station in Chicago in the mid-1980s.
From another source: The Albatross was an American sports car venture that was planned in 1939, but that never got off the ground. The plan had been to market an ultra-streamlined four-seat tourer body, built on a standard Mercury chassis, based on a European custom-made car owned by cartoonist Peter Arno. The proposed car was advertised in at least one periodical, but it is doubtful whether or not any cars were actually produced.
I still have to find a picture if possible.

Don't worry about any connection with the Addams puzzle, there is none. I only recognized Arno today on a web page I've just discovered.

[ftg3plus4]

That's it! Well done!

BTW, if anyone can provide a picture of the Albatross, I'd really like to see it.

[Ray B.]

I only could find that he had it built by J.S. Inskip (of Brewster & Co) and that it looked a bit like the 540K Mercedes by Erdmann and Rossi.

[tokiookie]

See the top left of page 23 of "The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942" for a picture of the Albatross - the only one it seems. The chassis is a streached 1939 Mercury.

[Ray B.]

Please, show us!

[Ray B.]

Bingo!
It just popped up as a SIA flashback in the Hemmings blog.

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That would make it suitable for the 'Rare Car of The Week'
Hail SIA!

[Allemano]

have I missed something or do we link from now on?

[Ray B.]

What you missed I don't know.
But what I missed is this: who takes the decision t move topics to 'Rare car of the week', when, and who does it.

When I know I can add the files of the SIA article.

[ftg3plus4]

Putting the picture right here, although the article at the link shows other angles as well.

Is it just me, or does this look a lot more like a recent, vaguely '30s-inspired car than one actually made in the '30s?