Word: fender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oldsmobiles (called B-44s to mark the company's 44th anniversary) are lower & longer, with fadeaway front fenders. Long-needed innovation is twin front bumpers. One is in the usual place, the other a foot higher, sprouting from either fender to protect the flashy grille. Frames are heavier, have an added cross-member. Power has been increased through a higher compression ratio, redesigned combustion chambers...
...little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar. The works consisted of darting up and down a 45% grade, growling through a fifty-yard stretch of gumbo mud that lay fender deep in a six-foot gully, then bouncing up the sides of the gully and tearing through a quarter-mile of heavy underbrush. Not even Frenchy showed signs of wear & tear...