Today at the Phoenix Art Museum I saw a temporary exhibit called Curves of Steel. It featured 22 streamlined cars, mostly from the '30s, including a Cord, an Auburn, and a couple of extraordinary Delahayes. They even had land-speed racer made from P-38 drop tank (not listed on the Website).
Absolutely fantasitc! Paint finishes almost beyond belief! Most of them looked like about 20 coats of hand-rubbed lacquer.
If you're in town, I highly recommend visiting this exhibit. I think you'll be inspired.
http://www.phxart.org/exhibitions/curves.asp
Bruce
"You can't have everything--where would you put it?"