Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-01
Kippy Furnishings
Now Stressed in
Matter Automobiles

New York, Nov. 30.--[P) - The
depth Of the cushions-not the purr
of the engine--is the seasons test of
the elegance of motor cars.
The practical perfection Of the me-
chanical side, automobile men said
today, has caused the shifting OF en-
phasis. Now the 'dolled up" body is
the thing.
Just how elegant the very ultra
car will be was forecast when 100
cars worth S1,000,00 were rolled into
the ball room of the Commodore Ho-
tel this week and there left to glisten,
and soft music and select society,
sporting the following "accessories":
automatic cocktail mixers; ice
chestt; three tier trunks, with ID
brass locks; hardwood bars, with
gold and silver plated goblets; auto
matte cigarette lighters: boudoir
chests, containing Lair brushes,
combs, ETC.; Cararra marble toned
leather seats; polished aluminium
hoods; inlaid imported wooden door
ratings; monogra1lmed foot muf-.
flers and period upholstering.
The well dressed car the exhibits
in the twentieth annual salon show,
will cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
The highest priced car is not, how
ever, one of the most adorned. 1t is
a thoroughly sedate cab de vile, of
English origin, with a body built in
Springfield. Mass.
At little less than $4,000, it
could be traded in almost anywhere
for half dozen lesser toned family
transports.
An outstanding feature of the sea-
son is the application of the antique
craze to motor cars. One maker
builder of very inexpensive cars, has
"periodized" twelve bodies of his
more expensive brand and wealthy
buyers may now have a car to match
their colonial country house or their
favorite cathedral.
From the Chinese palanquin they
have taken some ideas and applied
others from the Egyptian, Roman,
Gothic, Georgian and other eras. The
period furnishing is reflected chiefly
in the back seat where milady may
ensconce herself in early Gothic or
the first empire, depending upon her
pocketbook.
From the curious cars of the period
group is a perfect reproduction in
canary yellow and black of a coach
ing brougham. An 18th century body
on a 1928 chassis boasts everything
from archaic outside hinges and a
square window lamp near the
"coachman," to little leather tassels
on the inside Of the doors.
This is however, frankly selling
stunt and according to the dealer, he
doesn't hardly expect to sell it I'M
less perhaps in Los Angeles"
Personality thus may reign su-
preme in the American built bodies
that grace the foreign motored cars.
For example, theras the rumble
seated sport model racer, ordered by
Rudolph Valentino, shortly before the
actors death. Obviously the cars
body, built here on a Milano con-
structed chassis, was patterned after
it's radiator cap, which is q silver CO.
bra. fang shot out, ready to spring.
The hood is damaskeened Alumni
UNI and achieves the odd appearance
of snakeskin.
Internally. there are few innova-
tons this season, cylinders still run
ming from six to II with eight pre-
dominating.
Aluminium hoods. that require
special sort of expert polisher, are
almost common and rare imported
WOODS nave Detn uitdiu Itlc anu
there to tone up what sometimes APP
pears to be drawing room on
wheels.
The speediest car is German two
seated racer. guaranteed to do 10
miles an hour"
Anybody can understand luxury,
but the plain man who knows his
traffic cops, was a little mystified
here.
THAT car" he observed, Ought to
be censored. That's no car. That's a
plain temptation"