Photo of by John M. Reinhart found online.
Presenting a book once owned and signed by John M. Reinhart.
Reinhart was the cheif designer for the Lincoln Mark II, the Packard Patrician and many other cars, a list which is much more exhaustive than my rudimentary online search.
The signature reads:
John M. Reinhart.
November 30, 1936
Detroit, Michigan.
I've been holding on to this item since about 2005, it had significance for me as this is a piece of Detroit memorabilia which turned up in an unlikely place, being in a large box full of books which were part of a estate sale in a dingy auction room in Sydney Australia. I bought it pretty much by accident.
If I were to guess, I would say that Reinhart was transferred to Australia permanently by Ford which had large manufacturing and design facilities which served the domestic market in Sydney until the 1980's.
A picture of a Lincoln Zephyr which was illustrated by Reinhart in 1936, the same year that the book was signed.
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