More Streamliners

In 1940, Lincoln began producing one of the last of the classics, the Lincoln Continental, based on the Lincoln Zephyr body. But the Zephyr also got a redesigned body, still streamlined and still distinctively beautiful. This 1940 two-door two-passenger V-12 business coupe shows the Zephyr styling to good advantage. Only 1,256 were built.

A different version of the Lincoln Zephyr is this 1940 four-door sedan. The Zephyr was introduced in 1936, a radical and beautiful example of the streamlining trend of the '30s. Zephyrs were all V-12s. The Zephyr was sold alongside the traditional Lincoln K models until the K was dropped at the end of 1939. The Zephyr and the new Continental became Lincoln's full line. After World War II, the Zephyr body continued through 1948, but the Zephyr name was dropped.

This 1949 Nash was Nash's first post-World War II design. The Airflyte body, as it was called (it became more famous as "the bathtub Nash"), was very streamlined, of unitized construction with a one-piece curved windshield and front seats that folded down to make a bed. With the Airflyte, Nash became the first automotive mass producer to commit totally to unitized construction.