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Originally Posted by Albany NY
Nothing even slightly noir about this car.
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The Crosley isn't completely without connections to this thread. A New York Times article titled
Frugal, Before Americans Cared names a few well-known Crosley owners, including Frank Lloyd Wright. From the article:
"In the mid-1930s Wright established a second location for his Taliesin design and architecture school, near Scottsdale, Ariz. After the war, he became fond of taking road trips from the original Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wis., to Taliesin West. Wright would generally make the trip in a Bentley, Lincoln, Cadillac or Mercedes. His followers weren’t so lucky. They were banished to his fleet of Crosley Hotshots, painted his signature shade of Cherokee Red, a trip about as comfortable as crossing the country in a golf cart."
The car below is one of those Crosleys. It's part of a slideshow in another NY Times article:
The Auto as Architect's Inspiration.
The New York Times/Matt Short/Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
Another of the celebrity owners named in the first article is Gloria Swanson. Maybe it was a case of "I am big. It's the
cars that got small."
