Girl and Car ID

[A-37]

This movie star is promoting a WWII scrap metal drive aimed at getting car owners to donate non-essential parts of their cars to the war effort.

Car collectors will recoil in horror at not only seeing the bumpers removed but carelessly laying across the car.

1. Who is this movie star?

2. What car is this? (extra credit for correct year)

 

[desi2358]

The Lady is Rita Hayworth............ as to the car I'm really not sure.

I think it's a 41 Lincoln but would need to look it up to be sure.

 

[Targets Guy]

Ah Rita! She could sell me a car for sure.

 

[wood714]

This may help.

 

[pawngal]

Yes, 1941 Lincoln Continental Coupe, was her personal car.

 

[soFlaNative]

What car??

 

[two-bit cowboy]

I think it's a 41 Lincoln

Yes, a Continental.

 

[Rudi]

Lovely Rita!!

 

[soFlaNative]

Lovely Rita!!

That's no meter maid like I've ever seen!

 

[Rudi]

She can give me a bunch of tickets!

 

[A-37]

Great answers and comments.

Thanks, wood 714, for fixing the pic.

 

[DWalt]

She was hot stuff in the movie world of the 1940s and was married for awhile to Orson Welles. She was very famous among WWII GIs for the pinup picture of her in a nighty. She later married Prince Ali Khan who was a notorious super stud of the period, right up there with Porfirio Rubirosa as a companion of very wealthy and prominent women.

 

[robvious]

look at dem gams...

 

[Truckman]

I've seen a lot of WWII pics of cars with wooden bumpers...It was common practice to donate steel bumpers......Ben

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Tin drives proved to be useful for canning rations, but most other collected goods were of limited use, recycled rubber, steel and aluminum were near useless. Paper was interesting in that so much was gathered the paper producers urged the government to stop, but there was an acute paper shortage by 1944 anyway, must have been all the military forms.

 

[DWalt]

Tin drives proved to be useful for canning rations, but most other collected goods were of limited use, recycled rubber, steel and aluminum were near useless. Paper was interesting in that so much was gathered the paper producers urged the government to stop, but there was an acute paper shortage by 1944 anyway, must have been all the military forms.

Those scrap and paper drives during WWII were intended mainly to increase population solidarity regarding commitment to the war effort, i.e., to make everyone believe that they were part of it. The same can be said about many items that were rationed. There was always plenty of gasoline for civilian use throughout the war. Gasoline rationing was intended more as an indirect way to conserve rubber that would be used for tires by reducing driving. Rubber, at least natural rubber, was indeed one commodity which was both scarce and vital to military needs during the war. From what I have heard from those adults who were living on the home front during WWII, there were always ways to get all you needed of almost any rationed item as long as you were able to pay an increased price for it.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Mom said that during the war Liverpool had several collection points for scrap metal. When the war ended most of the scrap remained.