That’s actually the likely origin of the term.
Ah, interesting. The first hit I saw on Google suggested the actress as being the original source, but that the term wasn’t widely popularized until after the Duesenberg association. Of course now I can’t find that link.
MG Midget, a very early model, circa 1961.
Those things are tiny.
A '59 VW “Baja Bug”, a Beetle that had run the Baja 1000.
Just saw a DAWOO Lanos-this brand did not last too long-i hear that they were actually decent. Of course, parts now non-existent.
Another Ferrari today for me, this time the more common California. Still a very cool car. Parked at a McDonald’s.
A white 54 Corvette driving through P-town on a busy Saturday afternoon.
We had a really nice TVR Grantura at the race track this weekend, and a '64 Corvette too.
Well, Labor Day weekend has come and gone. I ended up working at home all weekend so despite the proximity of the Auburn auction, all I can report is a beautiful blue '67 GTO for sale on the highway and a 70 something Challenger convertible that cruised my road.
An orange BMW 635csi, very similar to this: the handsomest ever BMW, to my thinking, and still a huge amount of presence.
A first generation Ford Bronco, the original SUV (depending on your definition of original and SUV).
Saw a real nice looking '70 Firebird Formula today, Like this except dark green.
An early model white Chevy Corvair convertible. Saw a very noisy Ferrari yesterday, but don’t know the model.
There’s a bunch of Teslas in San Diego these days, and all the different versions of the Model S look pretty much the same.
Yesterday, though, i had my first confirmed sighting of the P85D, the dual-battery monster that makes almost 700 horsepower and gets to 60mph in 3.2 seconds. Parked next to it at the mall.
A nice restored Camaro SS convertible 396.
1914 Packard that was the first pace car for the Indy 500 (the first few years they did a standing start). Also a 2015 Ferrari 458 Spyder. A few things have changed in the last 101 years. I actually know the owner and he ordered it over a year and a half ago and just got it a few weeks ago.
In about a week or so I’ll be heading to Vegas and what I’m looking forward to the most is seeing the original Batmobile which is being auctioned.
This year may be my best ever in car viewing since earlier this year I saw Carol Shelby’s own Super Snake ('66 427 AC Cobra… sold for $5.5 million), and soon the Batmobile. I’ll be hard pressed to beat this year.
I had a post-ride lunch just outside the Lamborghini dealership yesterday, but I have no idea what models they were. A bright, lime-green one kept distracting my attention away from the ladies on the street, though.
A pre-war Lincoln convertible with a continental kit, burnished copper and to die for. It looked like this, but better. It was big.
A ’70 Olds 442, a ’57 Olds two-door hardtop, a ’56 Buick four-door hardtop, a ’56 Buick wagon, a ’55 Chevy and a ’57 Dodge or Plymouth wagon, probably Grandpa driving and with his 10-year-old grandson in the back seat, leaning forward with his arms crossed on the top of the front bench, right behind Grandpa’s head. Obviously no seat belts.
That Plodge was uuuuggggglllyyyy. A horrible, dull, pumpkiny orange with a white roof. Unfortunately, it didn’t look like primer.
A brown Austin with gleaming chrome. It looked pre-war. I looked for picture of it on the net, and it might have been a 1938 or so. It had the same bustle back but the grille was slanted more — the top of it slanted toward the windshield. It was going the other way on a four-lane at 80 km/h and separated by a three-metre-wide boulevard, so I couldn’t chase it. I couldn’t see if it was right- or left-hand drive. Austins were imported here post-war. I had never seen one that old, outside of pictures, before.
Just after that I was four cars behind what I think was an Austin Healey, white with two wide blue stripes running vertically down the middle of the trunk. I couldn’t get any closer to it.
A few minutes later a small-rear-window, leaf-green VW tooled across the intersection as I waited for a red. It was long gone by the time I could go.
I saw all of the them on the streets, not at a display. But there must have been one somewhere nearby for so many to turn up within an hour or so. But we’re having freakishly warm and sunny weather for September, so maybe the owners thought it might be their last chance for a Sunday drive this year.
After looking at the pic earlier this week I saw one as well in Edmonton this weekend! The same orange but with black rims and de-badged. Pretty car but I still think the M1 is the prettiest BMW, followed by the early Aughts M3s.