Productions Plus-The Talent Shop Open House Celebration

This poster represents the first of many uses of the siren symbol to advertise "auto exhibitions, " as they were called at the time.

Adorned by a crown of lights, a model adopts a Barbie pose while perched in a Pontiac Bonneville at the 1981 Chicago Auto Show.

Shown here at the 1960 Detroit Auto Show, Marlene Dietrich appeared in regal splendor endorsing a Mercedes seat concept for "more leg room."

1960: Auto shows attract beauty queens as representatives of the auto companies.Beauty queens helped cement the understanding of a specific vehicle.

1956-Driving the economy: Sharon Ritchie the 18-year-old Miss America from Denver, Colorado and New York Mayor Robert Wagner cut the ceremonial ribbon for the 1956 New York Auto Show.

Fresh on the publicity trail for Alfred Hitcock's Movie, To Catch a Thief, Cary Grant poses in 1955 with a BMW Isetta in Munich.

Here patriotic sophisticates helped the war effort by posing with military guards at Fort Wayne induction center in Detroit in their 1942 Ford Super Deluxe.

For the 40th anniversary of the 1939 New York auto show, the Automobile Manufacturers Association created a wall-size mural of the Parthenon.

There's no business like car business. At the 1939 auto show the cars were the stars and celebrities supported them...taking second billing.

Dinah Shore belted out "See the USA in your Chevrolet". Here is Dinah in her Chevrolet at the 1953 auto show.

Gawk at over-the-top opulence of the Somali leopard pelt-upholstered 1957 Cadillac Debutante

Productions Plus models Jordan Carson and Taylor Jackson holding my book Sirens of Chrome

Productions Plus models Taylor Jackson in a 1970s hostess dress and Renee Rayes as a flapper at the Mode de Concourse

Meadowbrook Concourse d'Elegance

Frankfurt auto show

Bentley model

Paris auto show

Productions Plus' Pontiac flame dress at the auto show in the late 1980s