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I'll finish this off with one more photo from that long lost lifestyle. This is my dad on the right and his younger brother. Based on their ages, one in shorts the other long pants, I believe this was about 1928. On the back of this highly staged photo in pencil are the words "Fixing the car". I'll bet the photographer was the chauffeur, his shadow looming in the foreground. My grandmother (she was divorced) probably could not find the garage. No mystery here though, seems to me the distinctive radiator shape can only be a Panhard.

Thx. Yes, it was quite the property. I remember it as a small child. He was a dentist and developed a popular toothpaste brand, Forhan’s, and sold it to a proto-conglomerate, Zonite, in the mid 1920’s. The brand was kind of the Crest of its day. As you can see since this was filmed around 1935 he managed to preserve the family fortune through the Depression. When it came to his divorce however he was not so lucky. :/

I just attached the whole film here. He really comes barrelling in toward the garage! Anything else you glean from this about the Stutz or other cars would be greatly appreciated! Enjoy, and thanks for the help! Pedrick_005_h264.mov

Wow, thanks so much! I suspected Stutz, because my dad -gone over 50 years now used to talk about a Stutz he had as a "kid" The film was shot at my great-grandfather's estate in Pelham NY, on Long Island sound. The estate is still there, well kept up and little changed, and a few years ago I saw from the road that even that garage still exists. The estate was sold back in 1956 or so. Other than that, I guess my dad is about 24 in the picture. He worked on it himself, and told me he had tuned it carefully to get maximum MPG, 20 sticks in my mind. He went off to WWII, and left the car in that garage. After the war it was done, my g-grandmother had sold it for scrap to help the war effort. Here are a couple more images of vehicles in the film, maybe those might help date when it was actually taken?

A second cousin recently had some old family films digitized and came up with this gem...my dad has just driven up to a garage and hopped out of this amazing car to greet someone. Sorry for the terrible quality of the image, and also note in the first shot there is a four door sedan parked behind the vehicle it to make it even more difficult. I also found the two other outtakes. Any ideas what we are looking at here? I can’t find anything with any real detail. I believe the film was shot around 1935. Thanks!