From the National Archives and Records Administration Online Collection. The previous post featured tow photos of me next to or in a 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster. Above is Hillary with cars I the background. Can you identify the cars. It seems that all baby boomers had photos taken of them with cars in the background! Hillary is already reaching out for votes!
From Ed:
It does appear that the car shown behind the young Hillary is a Pontiac and I'm thinking a 1940 Business Coupe. See photo from brochure on lower left of this page. The windows are the same and there is a hint of the three fake louvers alongside the hood. Could easily have been her father's car as he started out selling drapery fabrics around the midwest, often on-the-road so a businessman's coupe made perfect sense to many of these guys.
The vehicle in front of Hillary's family car appears to be a turret-top 1947 Studebaker. One can sort of see
the back-end of the turret top and the rear sloping trunk lid is another give away as well as the rather
minimal rear wheel well covering.
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