Wednesday, October 12, 2016

evolution of the trunk


roughly still a steamer (steam ship) trunk, fabric exterior, weatherproof,  placed on a platform added to the car, and opening the rear most side of the trunk


to painted the same as the car, or to accentuate the car colors, and being partly top opening, in addition to the rear side



to top opening 


to growing to the size of the entire back of the car


and then becoming part of the car bodywork, but clearly still an addition to the passenger compartment

All images but the very last from my "trunk" tagged posts of recent years http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/trunk  

and the last image from http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=12091

2 comments:

  1. I used to discuss this with a British co-worker. The use of trunk makes good logical sense because of this history. I don't understand where "boot" came from.

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    1. Limeys... why can't they just speak English?!!?!

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