Connection Amos Northup ?
He was chief designer for Willys-Overland ,the lower pic is of a '40 / '41 Willys & the upper pic is his
personal customised early Ford ('30 / '31 model A ?)
From the web ;
"Northup was responsible for starting the aerodynamic school of thinking in automotive design in the late 1920's and early 1930's. His designs include the 1932 Graham Blue Streak, the 1931 Reo Royale, the 1933 Willys 77 and later Willys designs of the 1930's and his most famous, the 1937 Graham Spirit of Motion, better known as the Sharknose"