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6 hours ago, Rusty_OToole said:
It's called the "Narwhal look" and had a brief vogue on French custom cars in the late forties or very early fifties. It seems the idea was to give the car a longer hood line and a long sweeping profile from front to back by extending the hood out over the grille a few inches.
It is interesting the use of the term narwhal' or narval in French as the narwhal looks like this -
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The view you rarely see of that bulbous custom stuff is the view from the front - due to them often having a relatively narrow track. and even though they are post war models they are usually on pre-war design chassis and usually fitted with 5.50 x 18 or similar size tyres.
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10 minutes ago, JimKB1MCV said:
Re the black and white photo with the blonde passenger, isn't that Dianna Dors, a '50s Hollywood bombshell?
The top-down shot is lots more attractive. 😎
She was English. and the car she is in has an English registration.
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22 hours ago, alsancle said:
Not using signals seems to be a problem everywhere. Sometimes it is not a big deal and sometimes it really is a big deal. I make a point of always signaling just so I can feel morally superior to the morons I'm surrounded by on the roads here.
The theory, and the road rule requirements, around turn signals is to use them a certain number of seconds before you turn, depending on whether you are in the city or country. In other words the sequence is - signal, slow down and then turn. Unfortunately, nowadays more and more people are tending to use turn signals to signal what they are doing now rather than what they intend to do - ie they slow down, turn and then signal. FFS - 😕
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From looking at your photos I guess the car is in Otago somewhere.
Surely with two one-inch carbs on an engine that small it is grossly over-carbureted? A one-inch carb is plenty big enough for an American engine of around three litres.
Regarding shifting gears remember you have to 'double-clutch' - that is, dip the clutch to get it out of gear, let it out and dip again to get it into the next one. Simple when you get the hang of it. If you try to bang it straight through from one gear to another as you do with a modern, the box won't like it. I have seen many videos of people driving crash box cars and it seems they don't know how to do it. You can do it without double-clutching, but it takes careful timing, and understanding what the engine sounds like when the box is ready to shift.
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5 hours ago, keiser31 said:
Looks to be a Locomobile.
Somewhere I saw it - maybe on a facebook page - the woman was identified as well.
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My query was answered by Varun Coutinho on the NZ fb page, after I messaged him with it.
1918-20 Pilot 6-45 - one of the many obscure makes imported to NZ, probably only in very small numbers.
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By US standards this is a Pre WWII photo as the registration plate on the car is 1940-41.
A 1929 Studebaker FE President with, I presume, quite a few hard miles under its belt as it was working as a service car.
"Man standing beside a car near the shop belonging to Thomas Edward Haines in Queenstown, 1940s, William H Tinson.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1714-R014-09"
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Any ideas?
It is wearing a 1928-29 registration plate but I think could date back to the late teens.
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"The first car at Waiho, 18th July,1911.
The crew of Reo roadster, photographed at Batson`s Hotel is; driver Bill Renton, his brother Paul, and in the dickie seat, Austin Hayman, the mechanic.
The 92 miles of rough road and riverbed were covered in 11 hours and 30 minutes, of which 6 hours and 30 minutes were driving time. The car was towed through all rivers except the Whataroa river, and each time the magneto was unbolted and carried across inside.
Frequent punctures led the team to reduce the high-pressure tyres from 60 pounds to 20 pounds per square inch."
Waiho is one of the more remote parts of New Zealand, not far from the internationally known Franz Josef Glacier. Due to its geography, a narrow coastal strip with mountains only a short distance from the sea means that part of the country experiences very high rainfall. Of course, in the southern hemisphere July is mid-winter.
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10 hours ago, 30DodgePanel said:
I don't recall seeing these posted yet.
I remember someone turning up at a local event many years ago with one of those early Duryeas, though it was the open "trap' model. I do recall that all of its controls were on the steering tiller, achieved by various twists and turns and pulling and pushing it. Unfortunately I didn't get a photo, and I don't know what has subsequently happened to the car.
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On 9/14/2022 at 1:21 PM, 8E45E said:
Not after the second world war when the UK was in a state of austerity, and belt tightening. The Chairman of Daimler at the time had a wife who was extremely ostentatious to the point of embarrasment for BSA-Daimler. Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (jaguarheritage.com) Her personalized 'Docker Daimlers' Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (jaguarheritage.com) were all a part of her extravagence. As a result, the Royal Family switched over to Rolls-Royce.
Craig
It is worth remembering that the British Daimler company was a completely separate operation to the German company by about 1900.
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Something I had not heard of until now -
"On September 16, 1920, as hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for lunch, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in front of Morgan Bank — the world’s most powerful banking institution. The blast turned the nation’s financial center into a bloody war zone and left 38 dead and hundreds more seriously injured. As financial institutions around the country went on high alert, many wondered if this was the strike against American capitalism that radical agitators had threatened for so long. A mostly forgotten act of terror that remains unsolved today, the bombing helped launch the career of a young J. Edgar Hoover and sparked a bitter national debate about how far the government should go to protect the nation from acts of political violence."
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A touring car in Norway which I think is a Haynes from circa 1923-24. Looking at pics on the net I couldn't get an exact match for the cowl lamp placing and the windshield pillars, but it appears Haynes did several different models. My book says they built their own engines. I wonder if they had a foundry or perhaps they got one of the engine makers to do their castings.
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Answering my own question with a photo from my files - 1922-24 Nash 4 Carriole.
Unfortunately my original mystery photo looks to have disappeared -
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4 hours ago, twin6 said:
1919 Studebaker Model EG Big Six.
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As in the US, here in NZ many early races were held at horse racing tracks. This is preparation for a motorcycle event at Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore, suggested as 1920s but might be earlier.
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2 hours ago, 8E45E said:
That car is/was on loan to the Reynolds Museum in Wetaskiwin.
As a side note, she was still "Princess" Elizebeth in 1939 when the Royal Tour was held. In Edmonton, the parade route was originally Portage Avenue, and was renamed 'Kingsway Avenue' after the tour, with a major road that intersects it named 'Princess Elizebeth Avenue': Kingsway NW - Google Maps
Remember that the wife of King George VI was also Queen Elizabeth.
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London a short time ago - Jaguar hearse -
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This one was posted on a facebook page captioned as a Cadillac near Denver Colorado in 1912.
It obviously isn't a Cadillac. I think it is a Pierce-Arrow from not later than 1910, by the number of front hub bolts. Whether a 38 or 48 I don't know. Most importantly the photo is flipped. P-As didn't go to left hand drive until about 1919(?).
I think the car has a 'convertible' top.
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On 9/10/2022 at 1:42 PM, MetroPetro said:
If anyone has a photograph of the Queen riding in a 1939 Cadillac Town Car please post. I believe she was visiting Long Island, possibly the Woolworth estate, just before the war.
Thanks.
Haven't got anything relating to the 1939 Cadillac but for the Royal Tour of Canada in 1939 by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth McLaughlin-Buick built two special Series 90 phaetons, one of which was brought out again for Prince Charles' 1986 visit.
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1931 Buick 96c photos wanted!
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These ones are fairly good, although the background is quite busy. There are other pics of the same car on Flickr as well.