Peerless Research Findings

[jeff_a]

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487.  This is what a 1924 Peerless Six-70 Roadster would look like if you found one somewhere.
Aluminum inline six, engineered by Cadillac but built by Peerless, 289 cubic inches, 70 HP, Lockheed 4-wheel hydraulic brakes, $2,185...other models & body styles to $4,090 that year. Same HP as the Peerless 332 cubic inch V-8 for 1924.

When the Hollywood Peerless dealership opened up mid-1924....this was the featured car in the opulent new Greek-Temple-inspired showroom.

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[jeff_a]

488.  These are all Peerless 6-70s, too. The model, sometimes called a "Peerless Six" (a novelty because the company had only offered V-8s for the last 8 years), was strictly a 1924 and early-1925 model.

Minor redesigns(same engine) were called Six-72, Six-90, and Six-91 up through 1929.

 

1. A 1924 Six-70 5-Passenger Touring Phaeton in Bozeman, MT in 2009. Body by Pullman, 1 of 50 companies producing bodies for the marque.

 

2. A Six-70 5-Passenger Touring Phaeton in an illustration describing the 1924 NY Motor Show

 

 

 

3. A 1925 Six-70 5-Passenger Touring Phaeton that appeared at a small museum auction in Saskatchewan about 2018, selling for $11,000 CDN. Sold again at an auction in NW North Dakota in 2021. New owner unknown...........but he got a fantastic car. Compare it to Photo 1.

4. The 1924 Six-70 Roadster which appeared at the January, 1924 NY Auto Show. Development was under the aegis of Richard Collins,  recent President of Cadillac, who planned to introduce it as the Collins Six and bought Peerless in 1921.

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[1912 Caddy]

As long as we are on this subject I am in need of a radiator shell for my 1925 model 6-72 the one that is on my car is not the correct one and is very rusted.

I don't think that the one I have is correct for my car from photos I have seen on this form but if anyone has front view pictures of a 6-72 please post them.

[jeff_a]

490.  1912 Caddy -- I'm at a busy time of year or would have replied sooner. In 2 days I have to drive to Williston, ND. It's hard to answer briefly, but when Ralph Cartonio was around, I told him about this car and he wanted me to drive to S. CA, trailer it to ME so he could use the rad shell for another Peerless with the wrong one on. He paid a trucker to haul the 1925 Six-72 those 3,000 miles about 2011. It was an odd turquoise blue at the time....1 owner 50 years a few miles N. of San Diego. I don't know if he switched them or not, but the other one sold(may have been a '28 Mod. 8-69 Roadster). That was after he bought a rad shell on Ebay for several hundred dollars that was the wrong size. He said each model had a slightly different size going up the price ladder. In '24, 2 models, but Cadillac-design*; '25, 3(2 like yours); '26, 3 models; '27, 5 models; '28, 4 models; '29, totally different design for 4 models. If accurate, a little confusing.

* see first 2 posts on page for pictures of 5 of them

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[1912 Caddy]

Hi Jeff

Thank you for your input on the subject of radiator shells, I will post a couple of photos I took last Wednesday  of the shell that is with the car at the present.

I am hoping to find another shell that is in better condition (any help appreciated) as you can see it will need a lot of work and never be good enough to plate.

The main difference between a 6-70 and a 6-72 is the shape of the hood near the hinge and the bowtie on the front.

After a lot of research I now believe that the one in the picture is correct.

Mike

[jeff_a]

 

 

492.  This fellow has had no one challenge his assertion...or even make comment...so it must be true.

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[jeff_a]

 

 

493.  Though the carmaker sold $300,000,000-worth of motorcars between 1900 and 1932, the ones from the first 15 years were so expensive practically no one could afford one. Case in point the 1912 Model 48-Six Limousine a Sir James Lougheed ordered at a cost of $6,000 CDN. Miraculously, the artifact has survived, in part due to less than 200 km of use, and long-time museum ownership. You can see it next time you pop over to the Western Development Museum, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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494.  A custom-bodied Peerless, I believe a Demarest-Peerless Town Car from the Chicago Auto Salon. '23 Skidoo!

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[jeff_a]

PRF No. 495.  Two examples of Peerless Model 56 Victoria Landaus.

 

1917 or 1918

 One in California 2014

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[jeff_a]

1927 PEERLESS BOATTAIL ROADSTER

 

A photo of a nice-looking Peerless 6-90 when it was at the J & R Vintage Auto Museum in New Mexico, which was put together by Gab Joiner, who competed in about 16 Great American Races(California to Connecticut, Mexico to Canada, etc.). They had this one for sale for $34,000 10 or 15 years ago. The museum closed 5 years ago. I met the next owner of the car, Mike Ciobanu, at Hershey back in 2013.

Interesting Vermilion-on-Maroon paint scheme, which you would not think of as attractive, but looks good here. Anyone else have an opinion?

 

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