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Most significant advance this year is the virtual disappearance of the familiar wobble-stick gearshift lever; almost all 1939 cars will sport some sort of steering-post-mounted gearshift either as standard or extra equipment. While most of these systems are merely conveniently placed substitutes for the old wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller...
Ford's V-8 (60 or 85 h. p.) looks like last year's DeLuxe: this year's DeLuxe looks more like last year's Lincoln-Zephyr. Priced at $669, $709, and $769, the new Fords have hydraulic brakes and a gearshift lever that bends out of knees...
Chevrolet, Master 85 and Master DeLuxe, is priced lower at from $710 to $766. Available: vacuum remote gearshift control ($10). The vacuum gearshift system has a manual stand-by control, for use in getting the car going if the battery fails...
Graham is a one-class outfit, its three body styles with slick highbrow radiator fronts and no running boards. Price: $965. For $130 extra, it may be had with custom appointments or supercharger equipment that steps the basic 90 h. p. up to 116. Optional is a steering-post gearshift...
Hudson & Hudson Terraplane are both longer, lower, sleeker. Hudson comes as an eight or a six. Terraplane as a six. Both have an improved version of the electric gearshift lever on the steering column which was the first of its kind ever mass-produced when introduced two years...