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I think this pre war page might get more 'foot traffic' than some others - I know I look at it more frequently than some others.
I have posted an enquiry on the post war page - I hope someone who knows their Cadillac V16s can work out what it is.
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I posted this on the what is it page but have not yet had a reply so I figured I will try here.
Can anyone identify the specific body type/style?
From this movie - made in Germany in the 1960s - IMCDb.org: "Sommersprossen, 1968": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles
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One thing I have done - bearing in mind my home is on the other side of the Pacific - is to drive the highest road in the US - Fall River Ridge(?) in Colorado which from memory is higher than NZ's highest mountain at just over 12,000 ft - done in 1978. And because I was in the northeast in 2015 I figured I had to do Mt Washington. A doddle (walk in the park) compared to the Colorado road.
I haven't counted the number of states I visited in 1978 but I drove from West to East (Florida) along the southern part, then back through the centre - Missouri, Kansas etc (St Louis was the farthest north and east I went) and then up the Pacific Coast almost to Canada. I visited several museums that possibly no longer exist. In 2015 I added I think three states driving from Boston to New Hampshire and Vermont. I think my age and Covid wariness will mean I will not be back.
The only other countries I have driven in are England, Ireland and France, a thousand miles or more in each.
As far as 'bucket list' stuff, being a car nut I have not ridden in many of the big American classic cars, or in a large brass car. I had a short ride up the road in 1996 in a V16 Cadillac, and I have driven both a Packard Twin Six (1917) and a 1930 733 phaeton. Thinking back I have ridden in a Bugatti Type 37A - the supercharged four cylinder one - very firm ride, and breezy. I don't have any great desire to ride in any recent 'supercars' - I think they are cramped and claustrophobic.
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Build date 3E - fifth week of March? I presume the body number 722 was the 722nd convertible body down that line? But built that late maybe not?
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"A car radio? What will they think of next!" Harold with Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer, on location for GIRL SHY. (Fred's car.)
Any ideas what the car might be? It wasn't used in the movie it seems - IMCDb.org: "Girl Shy, 1924": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles
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Probably only a photographer's prop but it may have been a running car some years earlier. The steering wheel controls might look familiar to someone.
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Looks to me to be one of the Madam X series bodies.
Lots more pics here - IMCDb.org: Cadillac unknown in "Sommersprossen, 1968"
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Assuming everything else is good you need to use a good quality oil intended for 'classic' cars.
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11 hours ago, twin6 said:
Lozier, maybe 1911? What's on the runningboard?
That 'thing' on the running board looks to be cast aluminium and has a piece on top where something else might be clamped to. I wonder if it is the lid to the box below the running board.
I guess the Lozier dates from 1913??
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A 1936 Dodge truck in service in New Zealand when near new. I should be able to determine the date from the punctuation point on the registration plate but the photo is not clear enough.
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9 hours ago, 58L-Y8 said:
Here's a better look at the 1933 Continental Flyer.
Another shot of the same car for you to tidy up - 😀
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2 hours ago, Walt G said:
The Stutz looks almost new - note that there is no dirt/slop etc on the front axle, crank handle, windshield - no bugs in the radiator, lamps all bright and polished. Does the wear on the tires reflect the cobble stone/block/brick paved street? Fender both top and bottom seem to glow in a shiny surface, well polished.
It is on a dealer plate so I guess is being demonstrated.
I don't think that is wear on the tyres. It looks more like the wet marks from the wet patches between the cobbles.
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2 hours ago, LCK81403 said:
Photographs showing cars parked at the Maungaturoto Dairy in New Zealand on 23 November 1934 are really interesting. Even though the date is late in 1934 virtually all of the cars appear to date from the mid-teens and 1920s. One of the cars appears to be an English Austin Model 7 of about '32 or '33 vintage.
That one is a 1933 Austin Ten. The car next to it (plate 20.702) is a Clyno - note it has quarter elliptic rear springs. Someone on the local facebook page where these appeared thought it was a Morris but those have semi-elliptics on the rear. I have friends who have owned a Clyno, a 1926 10.8 hp Royal, for many years, of those which I have driven a few times. Even though the Coventry Simplex four cylinder engine is only 1368 cc it goes quite well, although its three speed gearbox limits it on hills. One weird thing with it is that there in only one universal joint in the driveline - between the engine and gearbox, so as the diff goes up and down so does the gearbox and you feel the right side shifter moving up and down as well. It does have very good brakes though.
As I noted in the description there were very few new cars imported in 1931-33. There unlikely to be many pre-mid '20s models there as during the prosperous years of the late 1920s car sales were very strong and the earlier two wheel brake models mostly disappeared. New car registrations peaked at 21,405 in 1929 (the population was 1.48 million). The lowest year was 1933 with only 3,685 new registrations, many of which will have been leftover models from previous years.
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Scott Shephard's great grandfather (on the right in the photo) in Central Newfoundland. The car is a 1933 Continental Flyer -
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More photos from Tudor Collins. In this set a North Auckland Electric Power Board lines crew take a break at the Maungatapu Hotel in Northland, New Zealand. The photo date is probably post WW2 but it not later than 1 July 1946 when a new series of registration plates was issued. Up to 1941 new plates were issued every year but as a steel saving measure the 1941 plates (as seen in these photos) were retained until 1946. It must have seemed a good idea as from then on until the introduction of permanent plates in 1964 new plates were only issued every five years. I think the larger truck is an International.
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From the Arthur Rothstein legacy Project -
Going to Church to Pray for Rain.
Near Grassy Butte, North Dakota. July 1936
Photograph by Arthur Rothstein
It’s difficult to overstate the intensity of the heatwave that gripped much of the US in July and August of 1936. Eleven states including North Dakota experienced their highest-ever temperatures that sizzling summer. Many of these records remain unbroken or were broken only by our frequent twenty-first century heatwaves.
In the spring of 1936, Arthur Rothstein had documented horrific Dust Bowl conditions in the southern Great Plains. As summer advanced, he drove north into the scorching heat on assignment for the US Resettlement Administration. An official in the agency’s Washington office wrote to him on July 14, “Your decision to go into the drought area is [very good news].” The letter adds a few supplementary details to his assignment. “[Be] on the lookout for these pictures (1) Livestock needing water. (2) Needy families—people evacuating. (3) Pictures of children. (4) Crops stunted, burned up. (5) Farms closed down.” Rothstein found those images, plus one more that satisfied a final request. (6) “[Show people] going to or coming from church.”
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The plane is French - Latécoère 28 - Wikipedia - whether this one has the Renault or the Hispano engine I don't know. Date is circa 1930.
I think the car is a Graham-Paige.
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Interesting coincidence with the weather. Over on this side of the Pacific it is nearly mid day on Sunday 8 May - Mothers Day - and after a beautiful sunny day yesterday it is dull and overcast today with some rain forecast.
Not cold though - it is late autumn and the temperature is around 60 F.
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On 5/7/2022 at 2:29 AM, edinmass said:
The Great Dorset Steam Fair.......I plan on attending soon.....
Yes, do it before you are too old. It is a huge event that requires a lot of walking. We did it in 2016, when there were more than 60 of those 'showy' showman's engines there.
Regarding the Case tractor that is the subject of this thread I think the tractors with upright engines and exposed overhead valve gear much more interesting to watch. And then of course there is steam....
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A group of photos taken at the occasion of the opening of the new dairy factory in Maungaturoto, Northland, New Zealand, on 23 November 1934. Tudor Collins took a lot of photos in the area during his time.
Collins, Tudor Washington – Dictionary of New Zealand Biography – Te Ara
Tudor Collins – photographer — National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy (navymuseum.co.nz)
The photos highlight that up to that time the NZ car market was dominated by American makes, mainly due to their ruggedness and ability to withstand the poor roads. By the late 1930s government controls meant that the market came to be dominated by British cars. They also highlight that almost no new cars were imported to NZ in the years 1931 to 1933.
I think the majority of the cars will be readily identifiable. Makes popular in the US were also popular here.
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Shared from a facebook page on which one Geoff Hunt shared this image from The Texas Collection. Location Franklin Ave, Waco, Texas.
I think the touring car and the roadster are new Overlands but the limo looks older and probably another brand? Hudson??
In response to that photo Bob Compere commented that his grandfather had a Studebaker dealership right across the street -
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On 5/5/2022 at 2:16 PM, hidden_hunter said:
They have been in use here for years, have been for a ride along in one of the tech demo in a 5 series (our highway patrol cars now we don't make anything locally)
They literally scan everything they drive past for current registration status and flag anything that isnt current and alert the police
Here in NZ the Holden Commodore has been the Police car of choice for many years. As you say they make them anymore and the government has gone with Skodas - the Superb wagon, which is a roomy and powerful (206 kw) 4WD car. I think the last series Commodores - the Euro ones - were not that popular. I suspect their on board technology is up the with the Oz stuff.
Report - NAP615 - 2020 SKODA SUPERB in White | CARJAM
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Just curious - is that the body number stamped into the wood frame - or is it a part number?
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Period images to relieve some of the stress
in Period Photos - Pre WWII
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This one has been identified by Ron Hausman (Kissel guru?) as a 1921 or 1922 Kissel Model 6-45 Coach Sedan.
Maybe there are no survivors of that model as his posted comparison photo is a 1923 Model 6-55 Brougham Sedan -
Another piece of trivia there is the Steve Martin grew up next door to Harold Lloyd, and got to drive his 1936 Pierce-Arrow V12 as a youngster.