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What is the Car’s Design Like?

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Your ear canal’s shape may make the natural removal of wax difficult. Gregorie. The changes made for a much prettier car than either Tjaarda’s prototypes or the curved-nose Airflow, yet the essential shape remained more slippery than the Airflow’s even though it wasn’t “styled in the wind tunnel” like portions of the Chrysler design. Styling changes were slight: fender-mounted parking/turn-indicator lights and, for Continentals, pushbutton exterior door releases (replacing handles). Zephyr styling was similar to that of Tjaarda’s prototypes, but a pointy rear-hinged “alligator” hood and matching Vee’d radiator were grafted on under Edsel’s direction by Ford stylist E.T. The 1938 Zephyrs bowed with a three-inch-longer wheelbase and revised styling announced by a “mouth organ” grille that beat everyone to the next design trend: the horizontal front-end format. Tjaarda’s original design featured a rear-engine layout, but this was switched to a conventional front-engine/rear-drive format. Create the surface design in one section at a time. That boosted the make to 18th on the industry production card — the first time Lincoln broke into the top 20. Sales for the 1937 HB models came to nearly 30,000 despite few changes, though a three-­passenger coupe and division-window Town Limousine were added. Ford only installed the drive­train, added front sheetmetal, and saw to trimming and painting.

The design originated with a one-off convertible that Edsel used on his annual winter vacation in Palm Beach during 1938-39. Everyone who saw it thought it sensational, which encouraged Ford to offer production models scarcely a year later. Edsel laughingly told Tjaarda that Briggs might as well build the whole thing, as the Zephyr assembly line was only 40 feet long! Tjaarda claimed this was the first car in which aircraft-type stress analysis proved the superiority of unit construction. Its major design concepts evolved from a series of radical unit-body prototypes designed by John Tjaarda along aircraft principles and built with help from Briggs Manufacturing Company, eager to win some volume body business from Lincoln. Brunn also built 10 Zephyr town cars in 1940-41 (three of which went to the Ford family); all were heavy-looking rigs with rooflines that didn’t match well with the chiseled lower body. It works really well for dusting and not putting allergens back in the air. Designated Model H, the Zephyr bowed as a two- and four-door sedan on a 122-inch wheelbase.

Two- and four-door convertibles arrived. The Briggs town limo was scratched for ’41, but other Zephyrs returned with minor mechanical improvements, including power tops for convertibles and optional Borg-Warner overdrive in place of the two-speed Columbia axle. Briggs built most of the Zephyr. Among Custom-interior closed models was a special five-passenger “town limousine,” a four-door-sedan conversion by Briggs. By 1940 it was available only by special order, built on chassis completed during 1939. (The largest of these, the 160-inch-wheelbase “Sunshine Special,” served as the parade car of presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Allied is one of the largest geothermal loop field installers in the country. It was, of course, the Zephyr-based Continental, one of the most-stunning automobiles of all time. Model-year production increased from 404 to 1250. Meantime, Lincoln maintained a semblance of K-Series coach built tradition with a Zephyr-based Custom sedan and limousine on a 138-inch wheelbase. Annual sales hovered around 3500 from 1930 through ’33, then dropped by about half in 1934. After that, the K-Series would see no more than 2000 units per year.