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In 1933, Chevrolet’s answer to a Depression-era car market was a modest 65-horsepower inline six wrapped in a body that briefly wore the name ‘Eagle.’ The roadster in these photos keeps that silhouette but throws out almost everything else, running a turbocharged Pontiac V6 and a modern automatic instead. Two very different eras of engineering, one recognizable shape.
This 1949 Ford F1 wears a badge that reads differently than most people expect from a classic Ford half-ton, because the F-100 name didn’t exist yet. Built in just the second year of Ford’s all-new post-war truck lineup, it could be ordered with either a flathead six or Ford’s famous flathead V8. These images, courtesy of Gateway Classic Cars, capture a truck that predates the naming convention most fans grew up with.
This 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster leaned on prewar engineering and prewar tooling, yet Chevrolet still sold well over a quarter-million of them in a single year. Under the hood sits the 216.5-cubic-inch “Blue Flame” inline six paired with a three-speed manual — unglamorous by design, and exactly what a car-starved postwar public wanted. Here’s why a car that barely changed from 1942 became one of the era’s best sellers.