Still thinking about scans, quality control and the like. You can usually trust enthusiasts to do proper scans (for example, Jensen car brochures), and rooting around various automotive websites has revealed a host of great imagery. Ford Registry has glorious galleries, focusing specifically on the company's 1967 models. Not all the information is uploaded yet, but where available it's dizzyingly comprehensive. Check out that year's Color Charts, magazine reviews and newspaper adverts.

This link came courtesy of Ookworld, which devotes a considerable amount of space to galleries of ephemera, packaging and products ('hear whispered SECRET conversations ... thru SOLID WALLS') and car design. We especially liked Highway Hi-fi, an essay on that forgotten backwater of in-car entertainment - the automotive phonograph. Way back in 1955, the Chrysler Corporation introduced the first dashboard-mounted record player, a unit just a foot wide (!) that played custom 16 2/3rpm discs. These discs were specially produced for the player (see list here), and included forerunners of today's audio books, such as an adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Elsewhere. A new article from Andy Crewdson's New Series, an interview with the printer Gerald Lange (another link). This is our vote for the CD player of the moment, thanks to Muji. London Population 1801-1991, thanks to Sylloge. Image of the day. Prada NY critique. Viva Las Vegas: casino ephemera.posted by things at 08:26 / 0 comments