Limo with a sink on the fender, 1940
In 1940, "foreign limousines" came with hot and cold running water in a washbasin on the front fender:
Where Do They Keep The Towels? (Feb, 1940)
THIS new foreign limousine has a hot and cold water folding wash-basin of aluminum built into its right front fender. Beneath the hood is a 2-compartment tank holding two and a half gallons of water. The hot water section is heated by exhaust gases passing through a spiral pipe. The two faucets give water of any desired temperature. The basin is automatically emptied when it is folded into the fender.
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Ideal for hygiene freaks, heroin addicts, and cold blooded murderers in general.
To some it means grief
To other relief
But it's a sink to Bonnie and Clyde.
How useful. I can't even begin to count the times I've been loitering about my car's right front bumper, fervently wishing it were a sink!
like Mom's old VW bus, but way classier
A neurotic woman on the brink
Could no longer bear his fowl stink.
After a long country drive
Only she was alive
Hubby's blood she had washed down the sink.
Highku
sink in car fender
does it have a disposal
crazy foreigners
Did they advertise it as "Has everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink?"
It is so you can wash up after cooking.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/04/1930s_steam_cooker_uses_car_exhaust_to_cook_for_poison_your_family-2.html
I think it's much more impressive that it's made out of aluminum considering it was produced in the 40's.
#9 Most coachbuilt cars (ie those without mass-produced steel bodywork) in the 20s and 30s had bodywork built of aluminium (sorry, aLOOminum) on a wooden frame - although many had Weymann-style bodywork of cloth over wood.
The 'limousine' looks a bit French to me, like a Darl'mat-bodied Peugeot, a Delahaye, a Hotchkiss or even a Deutsch et Bonnet. But that's just a guess - IANAFLE.
This ideal improvement could save GM ..
Almost makes me want to attach a hand sanitizer dispenser under the fuel door in my car. Crazy!
Wow! Finally I can take the wife on a road trip and she won't have to stop doing the dishes! :D
I was thinking Jaguar, because of the shape of the grill (excuse me- that's "grille"), but that would have Betty standing in the street washing her hands, unless it was a left-side drive version made for 'the colonies'. I'm gonna ask a guy who should know.
The hood ornament looks like a pair of wings rather than the springing cat of a Jaguar (although admittedly I'm not sure what the Jaguar hood emblem was in the 1930's and '40s). Maybe we can find a match on this site: http://northstargallery.com/cars/cargalflyingladies.htm
It's an Horch 930S Stromlinie. A prototype car designed 1939, only 6 of them were actually manufactured. Four of them were manufactured after the war for the soviet commanders of eastern germany. One belongs currently to Audi Tradition and was on display on various classic car shows in Germany. It probably will be on display in one of Audi's Museums... I have to dig for some pictures I took at the shows in Essen and Stuttgart.
It features not only a sink in the front fender (which Horch already had in the 20ies, very handy if your driver has to exchange spark plugs), it also was the first car with air condition. Besides that it has a V8 with 92hp and is generally a fabulous car!
Being old enough to be a survivor of the 1950's style family car trip I can see the practical side of this. My dad was so obsessed with "making good time" that he wouldn't stop for anything but a dire emergency. My brothers and I were expected to pee in an empty mayonnaise jar rather than waste precious time by pulling off the road. The only exception was when he or my mom had to go or if one of us had to take a crap. Then it was an Indy 500 style pit stop at the first convenient bush or billboard. It would have been nice to have a sink to wash the hands afterward.
Pictures of this beauty are on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=horch+930s
I want the little station wagon in Jacques Tati's "Traffic." It might not have had a sink but it did include a rotisserie if memory serves.
Gmoke, I think that was a Mini Traveller. I could be wrong. Rotisserie was probably a dealer installed option. ;-)