Car and Dolls #18 - Brenda Frazier / Studebaker Land Cruiser

[RayTheRat]

Is/was she an actress?

[Otto Puzzell]

No

[Tackitt]

A question to clarify:
Her name, that is similar to that of a car brand, is, or is not the name of the car that she is most associated with?

[Otto Puzzell]

Her name is similar (not identical) to that of a car brand. The brand of car with which she is associated is a different one.

[Tackitt]

Is her name similar to an American car brand?

[Tackitt]

One last question and then I am through asking questions.
Was she a singer or a model?

[Otto Puzzell]

Is her name similar to an American car brand?

Yes; she and the automobile brand are both long-since expired.

[Otto Puzzell]

One last question and then I am through asking questions.
Was she a singer or a model?

No

[streamliner]

Was the puzzle car named in her honor after her death?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not at all.

[streamliner]

Was the puzzle car a work of her fiction?

[Otto Puzzell]

It was a real car, available to the masses at their local _____________ dealer. 

[Tackitt]

Anna Hope Dale Biddle and the car was R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion!

[Otto Puzzell]

No, but the answer you had typed and deleted was very close - the last name was misspelled, but it was otherwise correct.

[Tackitt]

I have spelled this name a dozen different ways and still have nothing but the original picture.
I will continue to perservere.

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm not sure why you're stuck on that name. Oh well...

Say, what's she smokin', Joe?

[Tackitt]

Is her name more similar to Lozier than Mercer?

[Otto Puzzell]

Somewhat.

I though my previous clue was a knockout. 

[Tackitt]

Your clue was a knockout and I was too punchdrunk to see it coming. Sometimes you can just get too close.

We are talking socialite Brenda Frazier and her Studebaker Land Cruiser!

[Otto Puzzell]

That's it!

[Otto Puzzell]

Oddly, it is said Ms. Frazier couldn't drive. Famous for being famous, Brenda later became a depressed recluse.

Here's a clearer shot of the ad, from happier times.