Retro is the “in-thing” this week with the release of the new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic jazz-age novel, The Great Gatsby.
One of the most notorious and fondly remembered portions of the novels is the vivid descriptions of the title character Gatsby’s car. The car is a “rich cream color bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.”
The car is written about in full detail but is still missing an important feature for car-lovers. Fitzgerald in all his imagery never reveals a specific auto-maker behind Gatsby’s one-of-a-kind ride.
The 1974 film staring Roberto Redford used a 1928 Rolls Royce Phantom 1 Ascot Tourer to bring the infamous car to life. In the new Baz Luhrmann interpretation, it’s a 1929 Duesenberg.
They certainly show how far car design has come; how much tastes have changed over the generations. Take a look at a real classic, the 1933 Chrysler Royal 8 Convertible Coupe and compare it to, say, today’s 300 Sedan.
As The Great Gastby gets released nation-wide today, what are some of the best oldies that come off the top of your head for the jazz age?
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