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From a facebook post. Is the car identifiable?

 

 

 

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On 3/2/2023 at 1:48 AM, edinmass said:

There are many photos of old race cars like this and they always use the word 'sur' (French of on). In that era you sat on a car rather than in it.

 

Btw note the size of that front sprocket - a sure sign that it is geared for speed, maybe 80-90 mph/1,000rpm. This is the 'Heroic age'.

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6 hours ago, keiser31 said:

Looks almost like a Mors.

Actually a British Talbot.

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19 hours ago, kcmadr said:

Thanks!

So taking into account the error on the info I had found, it would thus be a 1929 421 Standard Six Phaeton?

Everything I am checking it against seems to match this.

In a word - yes. Note in the photo how the car is relatively small compared with the people. The other Nash models of the same year are larger cars.  The Standard Six of 1929 is a development of the Ajax, Nash's small car, and also their only side valve engine to that date, which first appeared in 1925. Because Charls Nash had previously been at Buick he was a believer in overhead valve engines and used the design when he went out to build his own cars.

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23 hours ago, kcmadr said:

Could it be a 1929 Nash 421 Special Six Phaeton?
The images I've found look convincing.

The Special Six for 1929 is Series 430, with phaeton version being a Model 431.

 

The car is definitely the smaller side valve Standard Six. The Special and Advanced Sixes are much larger cars. 

 

In 1929 the Standard Six is quoted as having a shipping weight of 2500 lb - which is comparable with a Plymouth or low-price Dodge of the era. In comparison the Advanced Six - the top line Nash of the era - has a shipping weight of 3150 lb. The Special Six uses a chassis with either 116" or 122" wheelbase and has an ohv six-cylinder engine of 2224 cid.  The Standard Six has a wheelbase of 112" and a side valve engine of 184 cid. The Standard Six uses 5.00 section tyres, where the Special Six has much larger 5.50 section tyres.

 

There are photos here of two version of the Standard Six touring - one has exposed hinges and one does not - 29 421 Menu. (nashcarclub.org)

 

In this article the Nash is noted as being an Advanced Six, but it is simply not big enough. It is a Standard Six. Vehicles Advanced Six, Robert Strong Woodward, painter of New England scenes, barns, homesteads, pastures, churches, picturesque windows

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40 minutes ago, kcmadr said:

Is that on the basis of it having a narrower grille?

I mean, what is the difference that you're noticing?

Yes, smaller radiator, and wire wheels.

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I think it is a 1929 Nash Standard Six, the smaller side valve model, which didn't feature twin ignition.

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Maybe a Type 37?

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From a facebook page. The text, in French, suggests that this is the poster's great aunt who established a 'speak easy' in Chicago during the prohibition era. She returned to France a millionaire.

 

The car is noted as a '1922 Marmon convertible speedster' but looks more like a Haynes touring to me.

 

 

 

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Our Gang in a vestibule suburban - a Pierce??

 

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16 hours ago, George K said:

This my second favorite.

Maybe getting a little off topic but the blue Panhard reminded me of these pics I took in 2016 at a Bugatti meet in Molsheim of the Ettore Bugatti-designed 1903 Dietrich replica. This car has been recreated from scratch. 

 

 

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15 hours ago, John E. Guitar said:

A couple of Panhard et Levassor aero engines.

 

The 6 cylinder is from 1910 and the V12 is from 1916.

 

 

 

The water jackets on the six look a little like those on Jay Leno's Benz-Mercedes. I wonder whether they were copper or brass.   A good video here showing how it was done - 

 

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A National? - 

 

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1 hour ago, edinmass said:

Seems it is an Opel Regent.  Not to be confused with the small car of the early 1930s that reused the name.   Opel Regent - Wikipedia

 

 

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This photo from a post above reminds me that quite a few electric trucks were sold in New Zealand. The Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department promoted them for quite a few years.

 

This one is sign written for the dairy company at Rongotea, a small rural town in the lower North Island. I suspect the photo may have been taken in Latimer Sqaure in Christchurch before the truck was shipped to them.

 

 

Canterbury Heritage: Early Christchurch Electric Vehicles

 

One Walker has survived and is on display in the local electricity supplier's head office. I took this photo of it at an event in 1984.

 

Electric truck a heritage treasure | Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, edinmass said:

See my post above for thew origins of the photo. Apparently a 1915 Model 48 or 66. Maybe a suburban body?

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Posted by Scott Turner on a facebook page.

 

Original caption - "Plusieurs dames à l'air grincheux se rassemblent avec un Pierce Arrow avec des plaques d'immatriculation de 1919, bien que je ne sache pas où. Une oie surplombe la scene. Photo souple de ma collection." - 😉😀

 

On line translation - "Several grumpy-looking ladies gathering with a Pierce Arrow with 1919 license plates, although I don't know where. A goose is storming the stage. Soft pic from my collection"

 

What model is the Pierce?

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, hddennis said:

Can't get over how the cowl body line doesn't mate up with the door body lines! Were they all this way?

 

Howard Dennis

Maybe that body was a standard multi-fit line from a coachbuilder rather than from the Essex factory.

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An Amilcar in Australia.

 

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A South American post card. Date maybe circa 1930. Car make unknown.

 

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A South American post card. I think car dates from 1922-23. First guess Scripps-Booth or maybe Star Durant but not convinced.

 

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The Railway Hotel, Winton, Southland, New Zealand, probably circa 1925.

 

Any thoughts what the light coloured touring car with the California top might be?

 

I think the Buick is a 1924 four cylinder, although that model was standard with a painted radiator.

 

The car on the left in front of the T is also a mystery.

 

The hotel is still there. I found streetview shots from August '19 and October '22.

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, keiser31 said:

1929 Essex hub caps and cowl.

And everything else, except for the commercial body. The owners of this one, restored in the early '90s, live only a few minutes from me and are Essex nuts. They also have the 1920 Pikes Peak Special, and a 1920 touring car on wire wheels, both of which were restored in the 1980s. I guess they are not getting any younger and the Dover gives them a closed car option for colder weather.

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1953, probably less than a year old then. I am the eldest in the family and at that time the only child. My parents each had a bicycle fitted with a small engine. This one had a four stroke Ducati Cucciolo engine. They got their first car a year or so later.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, 1939_Buick said:

Getting a little off topic, my guess is a good many of those exports were to commonwealth countries and right hand drive.

UK seems to have McLaughlin Buick's. But AU & NZ have USA Buick's, manufactured assembled in AU/NZ.  India has McLaughlin Buick's from images I have seen.

Seems we were thinking and writing much the same thing at the same time - 😀