Remnants of an Era Bygone
I'm not a car junkie at all. So I stay away from these mechanized monsters for most part, unless there's a car rally. Especially vintage. Old cars are not just mechanized beasts. They're beautiful. An art form in itself.
This picture is the hood ornament of what I believe is a 1934 Buick 40 Series 2-door sedan, taken at a car rally held in Pune. The story behind this car is that the president of the Buick company, Harlow Curtice, believed in giving customers more speed for less money. This car, with an all-new 117-inch wheelbase was a result of this belief. The more modern and stylish design of the new car was considerably different from the boxy look of it's predecessors. In addition to technological innovations which I don't understand, this car also dropped the soft top in favour of the hard shell. The overall effect of all these changes was a tremendous boost to demand, and thus output, from 47,000 cars to 71,000. The number further shot up to 100,000 by 1936.