Just a lucky guess, I heard my Dad talk about these but I never saw one up close before. For some reason 1937 spawned several unusual body styles with unusual grills, maybe the '37 Chevy Coupes look really great next to some of the "roundnose" styling. Was '37 the first (and only) year for the Chrysler Airflow? Perhaps some of you experts could comment as to whether the Chrysler PT borrows some of the Airflow design, but certainly the PT captures a return to the days of Art Deco styling. Actually I am hazy on 1937 because my mode of transportation that year was a small white carriage! Given the semi-secrecy regarding styling and yet the fact that many styles copied each other, one can wonder how design engineers got off on this track which met it's end with the styling disaster of the Chrysler Airflow (the Edsel of the late '30s). I recall one of the key ideas of Art Deco styling was that of high winding and intertwining highways and yet today there actually is a LOT of this type of highway on the Interstates, particularly in and around cities. Give Ike the credit for the Interstate system, but judging by some of the new interchanges in the D.C. and Richmond urban sites it looks like Art Deco finally made it and just made for PT Cruisers. Maybe in 10-12 years rodders will be rebuilding PT Cruisers OR maybe souping up D.C. motors for HONDA-Hybrids. Now that is an unwelcome strange thought but after seeing Art Deco hit on the second time around, brace yourself for electric cars? While Chevy seems to have made an attractive '37 model (with hood louvers!), Ford temporarily made a brief foray toward Art Deco with it's '37, but fortunately corrected the styling to produce the beautiful '39 roadster and then the ever popular '40 Ford Coupe AND THEN the Barris customs made the fat fender Fords famous!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder