REO Royale

The REO Royale was the luxury flagship automobile of the REO Motor Car Company of Lansing, Michigan, built for the 1931 to 1935 model years. REO had been known for good mid-priced cars and trucks, and the Royale was an expensive move upmarket made in the depths of the Depression, so production stayed small. Its streamlined styling was drawn by Amos Northup of the Murray Corporation of America and is counted among the first true streamlining on the American market. Beverly Rae Kimes, editor of the Standard Catalog of American Cars, called it the most fabulous Reo of all. The Classic Car Club of America recognises the eight-cylinder cars, especially the 8-35 and the longer-wheelbase versions, as Full Classics. REO stopped building passenger cars after 1936 to concentrate on trucks.