Deco Rides glass Zephyrs

[CBoz]

Per V12Bill's posting below, here is the apparent source for the reproduction Zephyr convertibles and coupes:

http://www.decorides.com/zephyr.htm

Personally, I am very thankful that they are doing this. They are good-looking streetrods, and their price should make it uneconomical to modify a nice original. The only question I have is, how big is the market for 4-foot tall drivers???

[Guest imported_MikeWilliamsUK]

Trying to find a good word to say about such sacrilidge, at least there should be some V12 engines coming on the market! Perhaps axles too, maybe even Columbias!

Mike (UK)

[peecher]

Mike, By the way how are you doing with your Jensen?

[CBoz]

Reading more about the history of Scrape on the Deco Rides site:

http://www.decorides.com/scrapezephyr.htm

Apparently, the Lincoln Zephyr was designed by one E. L. Gregory to compete against Chrysler's Airflow! I guess this would have been news to E.T. Gregorie, and why Lincoln would want to directly compete against a car that was already a commercial flop by 1936 is beyond me

And looking down further on the page, I didn't realize one could "copyright" a car design. If so, too bad Lincoln didn't do it back in the 30s.

[Rolf]

Oh boy Cece, here we go again, don't really always want to be the contrarian, Dave Hugo take note, but I always thought that John Tjarda was the man who came up with rhe Zephyr, Gregorie was the Continental man, correct me if I am wrong

[CBoz]

Hey Rolf -

Actually, we are *both* right. Tjaarda (sp?) designed the original version, but Gregorie was at Ford by then and was responsible for the final styling, changing the front-end completely (hence the similarities to the '37 Ford). I think it's fair to say that Gregorie had more of a hand in the '38 and up styling.

In any case, I think we can both agree that E.L. Gregory wasn't involved at all