I think that image got a lot of people in trouble.The article came out at the time Chrysler was debutting it's Airflow series cars.
Carl Breer already knew the Airflow wasn't living up to the drag numbers developed from scale model wind tunnel investigations.
We haven't out-lived it yet.The nose was okay,but they ended up with what Hucho refers to as the pseudo-Jaray 'fastback' with too-steep slope and attendant longitudinal attached vortices and high drag.
The Schlor Car mimics this profile almost verbadum and suffers higher than necessary drag.
Breer must have known of Walter Lay's research publised in 1933,although the Airflow's design would have been in 'cement' by then.
If you have access to Fachsenfeld's book of 1951,he illustrates Lay's 'pumpkin seed Cd 0.12.It's a dead ringer for the 'StreamliningTemplate.'
