
Showing posts with label caddy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label caddy. Show all posts
Monday, December 20, 2010
Loewy's personal design '59 Caddy was found

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, June 1, 2009
Raymond Loewy (leader of AMC designs) and his custom 59 Caddy


At 15 he designed an aircraft that won an award, and was immediately put into production, after being wounded in action (WW1) and decorated with a medal, he boarded a ship for America with only 50 bucks.
During World War II, American government restrictions on in-house design departments at Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler prevented official work on civilian automobiles. Because Loewy's firm was independent of the fourth-largest automobile producer in America, no such restrictions applied. This permitted Studebaker to launch the first all-new postwar automobile in 1947, two years ahead of the "Big Three".
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