Lincoln V-12 Seven Passenger Touring Car Concept Design

by Otto Hoffmann, attributed

$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Exquisite drawing of a quintessential 1930s roadster. The old established Willoughby firm, coach body makers in Utica, New York, had a reputation for conservative, quality coachwork in 1930 when Viennese born Otto Hoffmann was hired as draughtsman/designer. He quickly moved the company's design philosophy to the forefront of the streamline school, translating traditional luxury car body types such as this touring car into the modern idiom. Willoughby designed bodies for

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