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Howard, I'm with you but as you know we always have to sort the designs in the time of origin. I believe that perpendicularity in those days were a symbol of seriosity and gravity.

But while speaking of squared rooflines I would like to show you a Knightstown body. As Owen said, it is not really attractive (to choose the diplomatic way) but impressive.




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Perhaps not Derhams but I remember to have seen "cubes" on 22-23 series. Try to sweet-talk Owen to open his archive.


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For good order's sake we should at least take a quick look at its blue neighbor.
Its rim color gives it a new zest. (It is so-called Fukushima purple.)

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No, I'm in the same loop.

My last bullet, a photograph taken at a rally 1984. About ten years later the odyssey has ended in the Latvian car museum.





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My thanks goes to my friend Igor from Moscow who sent me the picture links.

Roger, the biggest of all Kevin's aka BigKev collected a couple of them in the photo archive, even an electric driven bus.

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Victor, I believe it looks and it indeed is lower due to its acute-angled A-pillars. Against the backdrop of its year of origin it really looks sporty. What a mixture: sporty, powerful and majestic - the car for a King! Paint it red to run in a race, paint it blue to visit Pebble Beach or use a muted two-tone scheme (but roof and box tone on tone) to own a Grand Tourismo (Grand tourer) nobody else has.


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Years ago Howard's thoughts went the same way. Mal, it is a loop!

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Victor (56P400), sorry if it sounds like a know-it-all small-mindedness but althought Hispano-Suiza had a branch factory in France, it was founded and registered in Barcelona, Spain. But perhaps I'm wrong and the talk is of cars designed in France such as Franays.

--> sample for a Hispano with French design

However, I agree expressly with the central idea that the French designs were not seldom leading (even in later years). For hours I could sit next to a French car to talk about its lines but to sit in I prefer US American and German cars. French car design mostly is everything else than boring.

Dave, it may be true that you have the four-master Sea Cloud after its redesign in the 70s (again in Germany at the very ship yard, she was built in) kept in sight but knowing your maritime vein I qualify my statement as book knowledge.




--> That is what wikipedia says but I know about its imperfection.

Dave, I remember that you shared with us a couple of pics showing a black & white colored Franay. Even its radiator mask has been colored.