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OP's Puzzle #1521 - 1949 GM Corsair
« on: February 04, 2010, 04:27:09 AM »


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Re: OP's Puzzle #1521
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2010, 04:47:29 AM »
Expert point, comin' at ya!
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Re: OP's Puzzle #1521
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2010, 03:37:43 AM »
Here you go...
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Re: OP's Puzzle #1521
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2010, 12:27:16 PM »
GM's 1949 Corsair...
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Re: OP's Puzzle #1521
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2010, 06:09:03 AM »
That's the one.
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Re: OP's Puzzle #1521 - 1949 GM Corsair
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2010, 09:28:49 AM »
Some more information, please?
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Re: OP's Puzzle #1521 - 1949 GM Corsair
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2010, 10:44:51 AM »
The Corsair was GM's rear-engined dream car.  Designed, in part, to compete with the Tucker automobile that was not to be...

It was the cover story for Mechanix Illustrated, April 1949...



It also fit George Walker's 1942-44 description of what your post-war car will look like, as published in:

BETTER LIVING IN THE POSTWAR WORLD

By
NORMAN V. CARLISLE
and
FRANK B. LATHAM

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1944

The full text and images of both are online...
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Re: OP's Puzzle #1521 - 1949 GM Corsair
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2015, 11:02:58 AM »
Here's the next page of the above story in Mechanix Illustrated:

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