We go from obscurity into ubiquity today, leaving the Henry J behind but coming up on another pair of cars that trace their origin to some guys named “Henry”… both of which suffered in one way or another the fate of failure. One of them is practically synonymous with failure in fact. Hard to make a guessing game from the latter as its name is emblazoned over grille here, but perhaps we can torture the car spotters by asking them to ID the car in the background. (Yes, I know the guy standing in the photo sort of ruins the shot and partially covers that car…. life is tough, wear a helmet!)
Meanwhile those of you who are not admirers of vintage metal can ponder the reasons why a modern machine chose to mimic the nose seen above, and ponder the resulting furor in the webosphere when the reviewer called it as he saw it.
Another hint (since this is too easy for me to screw up yer game!): In their day, some wags said they looked like a Buick, sucking on a lemon!
And, its name was that of one of the more visionary folks who helmed the famous car company that made it, and who styled one of the MOST beautiful cars to come from it, EVER!
There ya go, boys!
As for the background ‘coche,’ I’ll say a Studebaker Hawk.
AAAAnd the E-Type gets another web reference:
“And what’s wrong with comparing the grill treatment of the Subaru B9 Tribeca to a flying vagina? Ever since Sigmund Freud’s “Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie” met Jaguar’s E-Type, journalists have called sports cars phallic symbols.”
Hehehehe.
😉
Well spotted Mr. Wigton. It is a Studebaker Hawk.
Can you make the MUSICAL connection between the Hawk and yesterday’s car, the Henry J?
(Unless you are a serious music geek, which I know both you and Mad Dog are, it’ll take some googling. 😉 )
That Hawk was absolutely beautifully restored. I talked to the owner and found out that the car had been in his family since new. His wife drove it to high school.
More photos of it starting here: http://www.collien.net/gttsr_day_4/beautiful_studebaker_hawk.html If you’re interested.
A musical connection between Studebaker and the Henry J…? Hmmm, that’s obscure. There is a band called the Kaiser Chiefs and I’m sure there is a band named Studebaker. Or someone’s sung about them.
Funny thing is I always thought the front of the Edsel looked like the part of anatomy mentioned in the article but I didn’t want to say it for fear of being crass. I kind of like Eddys though along with Corvairs, AMC Pacers and Trabants (I do draw the line at the Pontiac Aztek, though).