this is great, a visual guide from 1939 to the most common cars of the time

Original drawings from George Sheppard, then reproduced in 1939 by Colliers Weekly magazine
but I found this on my favorite site, http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com because Nik finds the coolest stuff and shares it!

shark tooth grin, it's on a Willys, or a shark nose '38 Graham

found on http://saints-of-la.blogspot.com

if you aren't familiar with a 1938 Graham, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/shark-nose-38-graham-quite-departure.html

1937 supercharged Graham with a very interesting instrument gauge module, it clued me into why Hudsons in the late 40's had such interesting radio panels

below is why I was reminded of the Hudson radio

what a 1938 factory Supercharged Graham engine looks like

hodge podge of autos that caught my attention

 I missed noting on this photo what this car is. But Greg identified it as a 'Duesenberg Model J'

 Billie Burke in San Francisco's Presidio Park drving her Studebaker

 Century

 Dodge... with a chauffer? In a Dodge? Really?

 Henry Ford in his first automobile

 Franklin

 1927 Holland Tunnel in New York

 New York hot dog stand 1935 in Manhattan

 a safety idea that didn't stick

 1909 flight of the Wright brothers... but look at the elegant horse carriage

 Lady Astor, a parliament member in  England and her Terraplane

 a Packard 12, 7 passenger limo

 Panhard and Levassor

 Regal

 This Supercharged Graham 120 won over 4 other v8 autos in a contest to win the favor of this fire dept chief

 REO Flying Cloud

 The first Oldsmobile, 1896

A Winton stripped down for racing

all found while browsing through http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

Variety of car catalog photo from the 1930's.. these weren't very expensive cars, but were very classy looking

 32 Plymouth

 33 Buick

 37 Chevy taxi

 37 Cord Phaeton Sedan

 37 Westchester sedan

 37 Graham

37 series 95 Cavalier

1937 Packard 120

found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/