nzcarnerd

Just to reiterate a point I made earlier. If this car has the overhead valve engine it is the bigger, more expensive model. There was overlap in production of the side valve models but the 6-63 with the ohv engine was different and cost more. Measure the wheelbase, it should be 122". The earlier side valve models were just a little shorter wheelbase. If the tyre size is original it will be 32 x 4.50 (4.50 x 23)

Maybe an Oldsmobile - ?? or else something from the Durant stable - Flint??

Among the pictures on that Google link I saw what might have been the same WW1 truck as in the video and it led me to this page - http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/archive/index.php/t-25310.html? - most of which I have not yet read but looks to be some interesting stuff re WW1 vehicles. There were certainly large numbers of trucks left over after WW1 which were auctioned off and rebuilt to serve in the transport industry. I read somewhere that this contributed to a ten year stagnation of the British truck industry.

Steam traction engines need dozens of wheel turns lock-to-lock. That quip re arm strong is one I also use myself. An odd coincidence is that one British supplier of power steering components in the 1960s was Armstrong.

Second from left at the top is an Opel KapitanP2 (?).

Had another look at the car at top right that I thought might be a Willys Aero. I now think it is a Ford Taunus 12M.

It may be a 1927 Nash Advanced Six - Ambassador was a trim option that year I think. I had thought those earlier ones had very large visors but maybe that is only the lower price models. One thing that does not look right is the size of the wheels and tyres - they somehow look too small on the crashed car. An optical illusion maybe?

I think you are misinterpreting the whole thing. I don't think anyone should take what they see on Top Gear seriously.

I think the family car (grey with a white roof and mostly obscured) is an Opel Rekord from around 1957-60.

Is that a Willys Aero in the middle of the upper row?

The red car with the white stripe is a DKW Junior. Up in the back row second from right is a British Ford Zephyr Mk2 and next to it a Renault Dauphine.

It is worth remembering that Top Gear is an entertainment programme that happens to have some cars in it, and not a motoring programme. The 'test' of the Reliant3 wheeler is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time.

I had a short ride on a 'road locomotive' (a traction engine with rubber tyres like those in this clip) some years ago. Understandably the steam engine runs almost silently but there is a terrible cacophony from the exposed transmission gears which are above the rear wheels and very close to your elbow. The showmans engine Quo Vadis - http://tractors.wikia.com/wiki/Burrell_no._3938 - (a road locomotive fitted with electrical generators and a rear mounted lifting crane) is currently on a tour of New Zealand and was at an event I attended just a couple of weeks ago.

Whatever it is it is from around 1929. I think the disc wheels are possibly aftermarket. They were an option on many cars around that time.

When I referred to this car being 'small' I was trying to differentiate the quite large American Underslung Traveller from the much smaller Regal Underslung.

Some good info here re Regals - http://theoldmotor.com/?p=137816. The pics confirm this is a 1913 Regal Model T.

Not enough detail to give a positive answer but might be a Buick from around 1918-1920.

The 1914 Regals were not underslung. Only the 1910 to 1913 models were. If someone can blow the pic up a bit maybe we can see detail of the front fenders. I think 1913 was the only year with the eyebrows. There may have been other makes with underslung chassis but Regal is the most well known. I think this car is too small to be an American (underslung).

Not a common car - less than 1000 total production. Looks from the plate to be in Eastern Europe somewhere?

Looks as if he spent so much on add-ons that he could not afford tyres. I don't think there was the same tread depth requirement that there is these days.

Not necessarily overheating. Cars with un pressurised cooling systems used water as a matter of course and in hot weather needed regular top ups. Until not too many years ago most mountain passes here in NZ had places where water was available sign posted.

If not Lozier, maybe an HAL. Another possibility is a big Chalmers from 1916. Not many cars have those extra large louvres. Whatever it is the wheelbase looks to be 130" plus.

If the original body is that far gone maybe consider building a speedster with it.

This is a Commander built somewhere between June and October of 1928. Total production was 8,428 and I would guess that most of them were sedans. That radiator style was new at that time - for the 1928 1/2 (mid season 1928 introduction) models. My third series GE Dictator built around the same time has the same style radiator. The engine numbers went from 4062101 to 4070500. There should be a casting date on the block. Here is the same style body on an FB President - http://www.vintageautoparts.us/images/Client%20Car%20Projects/Studebaker%201928%20FB%20President.jpg The FB President and the GH Commander were produced around the same time and have the same 121" wheelbase and I would not be surprised if there was some commonality in chassis components.

Circa 1910 Stoddard-Dayton maybe ??