REO Flying Cloud

The REO Flying Cloud was a passenger car built by the REO Motor Car Company of Lansing, Michigan, from 1927 to 1936. REO introduced it in 1927 and counted it, with the Royale, as one of its two most memorable cars. The name was chosen to suggest speed and lightness and changed the way American automobiles were named. It was the first car to use Lockheed's new hydraulic internal expanding brake system, was styled by Fabio Segardi and rode on a 115-inch wheelbase, with a six-cylinder engine. The line later added longer Master models, eight-cylinder options for 1931 and streamlined cars in the mid 1930s. The Flying Cloud was the last passenger car REO built: the final REO model of 1936 was a Flying Cloud, after which the company concentrated on trucks.