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Show DRIVER CAN TRANSFORM HIS FLIVVER . . . Newest Models Have Built-in Parking Space . . . INTO AN APARTMENT AUTOMAGICALLY ' By H. I. PHILLIPS USEFUL AUTOS n-HE latest trend In auto design is toward a pleasure car that can be transformed, presto, into something else. By little more than button pressing one model is converted con-verted into a truck or station wagon. Similarly, another model has a trunk compartment that can be made into something of a bou doir. We look for extensions' of the trend, bringing perhaps, the combination sedan, deep-freeze unit and rumpus room. Elmer Twitchell, the eminent emi-nent engineer, is at work on a design for flivving that will give the summer auto tourist a car to be known as the cabana ca-bana special. You can drive It onto the beach anywhere, throw a switch and change it into a beach cabana with cocktail cock-tail bar. Mr. Twitchell has other utilitarian utilitar-ian models in mind for Detroit including in-cluding the following: 1. Fisherman's special. Here the back-seat area can be converted into a huge aquarium for live bait, with a fish well for the day's catch. The car itself is aquatic and by a few wrist motions can be converted con-verted into a motor or sailboat. As an extra there is a sun lamp under which the fisherman can loll and lie to one another in comfort. 2. The Loaf-a-Mobile. Here, by a remarkable use of engineering skills, an extension can be whisked from the back end of the car which becomes, as if by sheer magic, a patio with flowered walls and bird-bath. bird-bath. A palm tree can be had in the deluxe model. Through this model the problem of having an auto, a beach home and a small yard Is solved. 3. The Kitcheny-Eight. Lives there an autoist who has never longed to whip up a meal en route? In this model Mr. Twitchell gives the world a roomy limousine in which the touch of a button transforms the rear of the car into a complete com-plete kitchenette with icebox, stove, pantry shelves, cabinets, etc. A compartment for live birds is included in case the owner wants a fresh chicken dinner. 4. The 12-cylinder What-Fun. By a few manipulations, taking less than 10 seconds, this model, seemingly seem-ingly an ordinary touring car, is converted into a police car with all the traditional symbols and sirens. The mechancial devices which accomplish this change also slap a police hat onto the driver. There is no model as satifactory as this to operators In a hurry. The Accordion-Kar. Here Mr. Twitchell has something which will be the answer to every autoist's prayer. It is a model which folds up when the driver wishes to park it. All hands alight, a button is touched and the car contracts in the manner man-ner of an accordion until it takes up little more room than an umbrella. The car can then be left in hotel lobbies, home hallways, or even phone booths. - (Note Order this last one early. It is going to be hard to get.) Race-Chart Stuff: Eight Jab . . . Often gets left. Trifle .... Not much. Swords Point .... Sharp. Shopper .... Apt to stop. Laurel Road .... Plenty green, f "Have nice, black, lady's suit worn three times, size 52; will swap for maple sirup or maple things. JY 314 Mass." Yankee Magazine. What would you say to taking some flapjacks used only twice? "For Sale Thoroughbred English Bulldog Pup. Price $75. Must make room for wife, three children, cat, rabbit and horse. 459 J." Clinton, N. X. Courier. And you know how cramped these modern bungalows are. "140 Base Piano Accordion, Chimes watch, 38-caliber Colt automatic, 20-gauge shotgun, hockey hock-ey skates, diamond-studded Elks' button to swap for outboard motor. JY 315 111." Yankee Magazine. Try cranking the Elks' button again; it may start. Ye ed hears that Olsen & Johnson John-son have received offers to quit Buick for Hercules Powder and the du Pont Corporation . . . What do Olsen & Johnosn do when they encounter a quiet zone? . . . Maybe Mike Quill's excuse for those fast strikes is that his brakes don't work. ... A cutie from Carolina Caro-lina Beach won the Lion's beauty contest and is Miss Lion of 1949. |