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11 hours ago, CHuDWah said:
Doesn't sound like much but $50 in 1934 is about $1,140 now
Not so much the dollars that matters as the percentage reduction in price from the V8 - about 10%.
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1933 photo. Something less common I think.
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35 minutes ago, Layden B said:
Pierce
Many if not all of their tour cars were purchased used in the Los Angeles area and driven to Yosemite. When/if they developed an expensive to fix problem they were off on the way back to LA.
Can you be specific on the model?
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Pierce, Thomas, or??
1916 CA registration with the 1919 star validation tab.
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18 hours ago, Dave Mellor NJ said:
Early gas jockey
A frequently seen photo from facebook of a circa 1900 Renault taken in the 1920s.
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Pacho Villa in Chihuahua Mexico. Is that an Olds Limited or an Autocrat?
Photo as posted on a facebook page.
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3 hours ago, keiser31 said:
1929 Willys-Knight.
More specifically the`1929-30 Model 70B Light Six.
Willys Overland Knight Registry - Photo Detail (wokr.org)
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15 hours ago, rodneybeauchamp said:
First photo is my grandfather and grandmother Haire (my mums parents) and on the running board left to right are my mum, Ronnie, her brother John, sister Gladys and brother Jimmy. Don’t know the car. RHD Australia.
Second photo unsure but a relative.
Third photo is my mums family in the car. Don’t know the car.
Last photo is mums grandfather and grandmother (my great grandparents) with my mum and siblings inside the car. Don’t know the car.
Unfortunately my grandfather passed away on my first birthday, so missed out on so much. Many happy memories staying with my grandmother.
Rodney 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
PS my parents never owned a car 🙁🙁🙁
First photo is a 1923 Buick.
Second photo a 1925-26 Studebaker Big Six.
Third photo I think may be a Humber from the teens.
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I attended that show, as a spectator, during my road trip around the US in 1978. I wonder if any of the cars that were there in '78 are still being shown. I will have to hunt through my photos from then.
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31 minutes ago, Varun Coutinho said:
I am sure Bozi, will be pleased to see that one identified after so long.
Oddly enough you identified what looks to be a different photo of the same car earlier this year. Note the bent fender.
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A Leyland bus on Goodyear wheels at Mt Cook, New Zealand, not later than mid 1925.
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2 hours ago, Bryan G said:
What was the price differential for 4 vs 8? I'm thinking in '34, every dollar very much counted.
A four cylinder car was $50 cheaper irrespective of the body style.
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A late 1920s Willys-Knight in Kumara on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. The registration plate dates the photo to 1935-36.
EDIT - 17 July - I think this one is a 1925 four cylinder model due to it having the crank hole through the bottom of the radiator shell.
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No more from the original poster?
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The first engine number for the Series 116 model is 2225361. The first 1930 number for the Series 40 - which is what the Series 116 became - is 2313806.
226++++ would fit in there.
Are you sure the engine is a Master? Photos would help.
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School/tour bus in California. Any ideas on the make?
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I wonder how many 'vintage ads' Guest litchfield had made - the mis-identification will now be widespread.
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1 hour ago, 58L-Y8 said:
Thanks, nzcarnerd and Randy in ca for filling out the details, photos of other survivors and the production numbers. Many times, a few details stick in one's mind to identify makes of obscure cars. In the case of the Wolverine, REO resolved their belt-line molding with the curved ends to form a panel that could be painted to highlight it, similar to Studebaker but just enough different.
The other Wolverine feature that stuck with me were the horizontal hood louvres as Gunsmoke points out. But they strike me as so plain and generic, they could have been lifted off a furnace or some other utility cabinet vent panel...
Several other makers went with horizontal louvres for 1929, including Marmon, Peerless, Stutz and Jordan.
Standard was one UK make that used them in the early 1930s - Standard 1933 (classiccarcatalogue.com)
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A family picnic outing near Ashburton in New Zealand. The date is not noted but I presume WW1 era.
As Ford didn't build a one ton truck at that time I guess this is a local conversion.
The motorcycle looks to be a Triumph from circa 1909-10.
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16 minutes ago, Randy in ca said:
Thanks for the ID Steve and all for all the other good information. Looks like the 2 main body features that differentiate this Wolverine from other models were the windshield visor and the shape of the Belt Line on the rear Quarter Panel. Obviously a very rare model - I could only find 2 pictures online showing the two features mentioned. One picture was denoted as a 1928 and the other a 1929. Neither picture is from a good angle to show the belt line difference, but looking close I think it's there on both.
The Standard Catalog says there was only ever one model of the Wolverine. It initially appeared in Spring 1927 as a two door brougham at $1195, and a sedan at $1295 was added in July 1928. Its replacement, the Mate, was introduced in December 1928. Funnily enough the body side moulding is similar to that seen on Studebakers for a few months in 1928.
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9 hours ago, alsancle said:
1919-20 Buick.
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9 hours ago, alsancle said:
Hupmobile?
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Going by the general look of the car it is a 1925 Standard Six. Smaller, lighter, and probably more practical than the Big Six.
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1 hour ago, 58L-Y8 said:
The companion car 'craze' by medium-priced automakers largely seems to have been instigated by the success Hudson was having with Essex and GM introducing the Pontiac to bolster Oakland. Studebaker jumps in with Erskine and later Rockne, REO with Wolverine, Marmon with Roosevelt, Willys-Overland with both Whippet and Falcon-Knight. Nash tried Ajax, Chandler fielded Cleveland, Paige gave Jewett a go but ultimately most all were folded into the main nameplate as a model or dropped. Even GM had to nix both Buick's Marquette and Oldsmobile's Viking due to the Depression taking hold. Strangest was Pontiac usurping Oakland. LaSalle ultimately did serve parent Cadillac a very useful role in opening up an avenue for Cadillac to first explore the lower-price segment of the premium market which it could finally occupy without tarnishing its luxury reputation.
As far as Wolverine survivors, maybe a handful, probably owned by REO club members. No production figures have been reported for its brief existence.
Steve
Regarding Wolverine production figures, the Serial Number Book for US cars suggests 14,299.
This Wolverine in NZ was restored in the 1980s by a previous owner, built as a boattail roadster presumably because the original sedan body rotted away. It has the later 215 cid Continental 16E engine, compared with the 199cid 15E engine fitted to most of them.
Until this year it was on wood wheels but the current owner has found some wires to fit. I am not sure what from but I see that Ford hubcaps fit. He has put Michelin radial tyres on.
The last photo is a Reo Mate in NZ when new in early 1929. I am guessing that not very many of these were imported.
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Grandmother in what kind of car
in What is it?
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Thanks should go to Varun for going through and tidying up the older posts of unidentified cars.
I made a slightly better copy of the original photo.