{"id":493280,"date":"2013-08-01T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T02:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=16572"},"modified":"2023-12-18T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:23:38","slug":"art-deco-and-the-automobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/art-deco-and-the-automobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Deco and the Automobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ROADFEA-201308-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-538759 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ROADFEA-201308-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ROADFEA-201308-p1.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ROADFEA-201308-p1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ROADFEA-201308-p1-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ROADFEA-201308-p1-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ROADFEA-201308-p1-293x439.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the major Western automobile manufacturing nations, England may have been the most staid when it came to streamlining and the Art Deco style.\u00a0 Possibly it was their nature for British designers to be more conservative than the stylists on the Continent or even in the United States. 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