The 1933 Tjaarda-designed Jaray-inspired Briggs Dream Car, a concurrent aero study along with the Chrysler Airflow and the look-alike Porsche's NSU Type 32 (VW Beetle), it was an aerodynamic, rear-engined and monocoque-bodied design prototype. Ford authorized the study for a compact Lincoln but was deemed too radical, required a more expensive and complicated assembly. Later the study did inspire a more mainstream design and re-engineered front-engined car resulting in the famous 1936 Lincoln Zephyr.
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