Old Cars Weekly

CUSTOM WITH A MISSION

It wasn’t meant to be a luxury car, nor was it the intention that the style and design would be mass produced. It wasn’t an inkling of things to come in auto designs as much as it was a rolling trial of popular, quality products made by one company. Unquestionably, the vehicle was meant to turn heads, grab attention and showcase the inventiveness and superb-functioning parts made by McQuay-Norris.

In the mid 1930s, car companies were doing all they could to gain positive attention in a decade that was a real downer for car

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