Last chance to drool over steel and chrome

If automotive design sometimes takes your breath away, don't miss the final week of the jaw-dropping Allure of the Automobile exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. I had the pleasure of enjoying this show last June as a Father's Day treat and if you're any kind of car fan at all, you really owe it to yourself to check this show out before it ends on September 11th. The show highlights the stylistic development of cars against prominent design movements such as Art Moderne, contrasting European and American engineering and design influences from the 1930's - 1960's. Bring something to mop up the drool...

Daddy's favorite space vehicle - 1959 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

Steve McQueen's 1957 Jaguar XK-SS Roadster - perfect for tooling around the curves of Mulholland Drive

 

1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR "Uhlenhaut" Coupe

1954 Plymouth Explorer Sports Coupe

1948 Tucker Torpedo

1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow

Check out this wasp's-nest chrome exhaust pipe!

No more complaints about changing a tire - we have it easy.

1937 Dubonnet Hispanno-Suiza H-6C "Xenia"

She's huge! Like a DC-3!

1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster - Baroness Gisela Von Krieger used this car to escape Nazi Germany just as the war broke out.

Anthony has the right expression! That's a 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Coupe, behind him.

Take Anthony's advice and get over to the museum this week while you still can.

We guarantee you'll walk out with that same look on your face!