From its big French curve front fenders and shield-like radiator grill to its bomb-shaped headlights to its long back deck and tail lights on graceful stalks, in its humble way the '36 is as much a work of art as the Cord 810 or the Duesenberg SJ.
"People didn't know if it was a nuclear-bomb facility, " says William Butterly about the temporary arch-shaped, steel-and-fabric hoop barn he had to build in his Fairfield, Conn.