Modern Motor Car, May 1950 and !MOTORAMA!

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Found two copies of this nice rag at a local used bookstore. On
the cover is the new Nash Rambler -- Unconventional Convertible.
No new revelations, a few photos, specs and new-car chat.

The mag is a polite enthusiast rag, very reverent towards
European cars, especially the sports jobs. The other lead
article is Rover's first-in-the-world gas turbine car (and you
thought it was Chrysler); the new MG Midget; coverage of the
British auto show in NYC; a one-page reprint of a brief on the
new Singer Six for 1915.

Got two copies, one excellent, one very good condition, a
buck each.


Also got a copy of the handout for the "3rd Annual International
MOTORAMA, Pan Pacific Auditorium, 10-16 Nov 1952, very good
condition, with the floor plan insert intact, also for a buck. No
ordinary production cars covered, so it's all oddballs and weirdos
and some real gems.

Soviet Pobeda; some Bonneville coverage; the Cummins Diesel Indy
entry; a wacko "cross country without stopping" mondo scientifico
from a gadget genius, Cadidillyac engine compartment filled with
Genuine Gizmos, and a trailer out back with huge oil and gas
supply! Didn't say how they managed to crap and pee in their
1-week, 6000 mile journey. Some customs, including one of THE
MOST UGLY CARS I have ever seen, Warren Dorrill's "The Shark",
49 Ford ruination, it looks like an accident, really, and there's
nothing post-modern about it. Packard Pan-American -- "... whatis
unusual today may very well be the accepted thing of tomorrow"
well tomorrow never came to this home (sorry, couldn't resist);
some hotrods in the show, some truly beautiful, the Root Document
for all the tedious, crap-ass yet expensive repetitive junk that
fills the hotrod magazines today; Fabuluous Fiberglas, the usual
suspects (Darrin); some murdercycles (aka donorcycles according
to some ER employees); Sports and Foreign (their grouping!);
Classics and Antiques including a Cord restored at the factory
(!); and trailing last the obligatory Safety First! page.

I want a Pobeda!