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The early '40s marked the end of the elegant automobiles of the '30s and represented a transition to the modern car which emerged after World War II. This 1940 Cadillac 62 sedan is considered a classic by the Classic Car Club of America. The classic era ended with the first post-war models.
This relic of an earlier age, an abandoned '42 Chevrolet, was spotted in a field near I-80 in eastern Pennsylvania. Its "sedanette" or "torpedo" body style was representative of the '40s and its melange of paint and rust give it character.
The last auto assembly line to shut down when production ceased in February, 1942, for the duration of World War II was the Hudson. This '42 Hudson Commodore Eight is not the last Hudson built in 1942, but it is one of the prettiest. For 1942, Hudson introduced Drive-Master, a semi-automatic vacuum-shifted transmission.
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