Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frame. The steering wheel is almost perpendicular to the floor. The driver steers as he would a motorboat, with his hands instead of his arms. But, most startling of all, the job is as close to perfect streamlining as is practical without mounting the engine in the rear...
...ventilation on its line of V-12's. Franklin, only air-cooled make in the U. S., slyly poked fun at the hullabaloo over knee-action wheels by exhibiting an Airman equipped with the customary soft full elliptical springs. Big blocks under the right front and the left rear wheels left the Airman standing perfectly level. Stutz, still hammering on Safety as its chief selling point, showed its improved single and dual valve lines...
...Olds Motor Works about the time "Come, Away with Me, Lucille. In My Merry Oldsmobile" was a smash hit. But he soon left the merry Oldsmobile and ended up in Hudson in its infancy. He agrees with those engineers who believe that the place to begin streamlining is the rear, not the front of a car. And Hudsons and Terraplanes show his attention to rears, which this year are all strictly teardrop...
Auburn displayed two lines of eights, two lines of sixes. The custom eight features a dual ratio rear axle...
...contribution to 1934 motoring is automatic gear-shifting. You still have to put the car in low gear (with a push rod on the dash) but once in gear a few steel weights spinning like a governor on a drum in the rear of the transmission do the rest. When a speed of about 18 m.p.h. is attained, centrifugal force throws out the weights, engaging a small supplementary clutch which throws the car into direct drive (high gear). When the car slows down below 18 m.p.h. the weights drop back, the small clutch disengages and the car is automatically...