UCGHandyman

I was wondering if they might be called Paddy wagons because of being padded inside? I suppose it has to do with the Irish from hints I've taken here.

Wow! That's pretty to me (German blood lines). I'd think that clock has more precision in it than some whole cars! Lol! I so miss having real clocks in cars. When I have a millisecond to glance down for the time I don't want to see anything other than time. Clocks in built into digital radios are usually a frustration to me. Give me a real, dedicated clock!

So the answer to Drwatson's question about the air intake is thru the grille & the air is ejected thru the slot at higher velocity toward the window..

Leif, Looking thru my pictures I find it looks more like another Peerless than anything else. That was the upside down car someone identified for you a week or so ago.. It was also an X registration. I see the radiator has a cover on it but a bit of the car's name is still showing. Cadillac or Willys-Knight of the years suggested above don't have the correct front bumper, windshield shape, or any name on the radiator as this does.

Here is a similar manifold on a Ford A.

Keiser, you're King! And you're FAST too! ;-) You must have a great memory & probably a large amount of experience of having seen older cars. While the Packard is very close, after quite a bit of comparing I saw the wider rear fenders, splayed windshield mounts & chrome-rimmed wind deflector panes. Hahaha..

Boy! I'd think that front end design would drive weird when it got worn out! It looks to be obviously a flexible suspension, but the mounting points that secure each side of the axle in place are so close together that they have little mechanical advantage against the leverage of the wheels & axle. I'd guess it was susceptible to shimmying if the spring mountings ever got loose.

Curiosities interest me unduly, perhaps. In light of what Keiser31 pointed out, if the attached cable was a usual stiff wire cable, then that indicates this "valve" was operated by the cable, rather than the other way around. (A vacuum dashpot wouldn't push the stiff cable alone.)

It does look like a transfer pump. It's a garage or shop tool. Prolly didn't come with any car.

Call a GM dealership.

Cool Buick convertible. It may be a 1968 or so Custom Convertible. Wonder what they're worth now? Dorky girls are more fun. :-) :: 1968 Buick Skylark Convertible - Flemings Ultimate Garage

According to what I've read tonight Ford didn't build their own bodies, but used a number of companies to made different standard & custom bodies for them. This began before the Model T. Some of the companies assembled specialty & custom bodies for Ford's customers, like the G. E. sales trucks, the ones for NCR, the Ambulances, the military vehicles, etc. There were body companies that sold direct to consumers too. The lightest Sedan Delivery van was more based on a car, but the heavier vans were built on the TT, AA, or BB truck chassis, some with dual rear wheels & many with V-8 engine past 1932 or so. So I'd be curious to see if someone uncovers this "wagon's" peculiar history & reason for being in life.

Sir you'd get more response from your ads if you posted pictures. It's as easy to attach a picture to the ad as it is to attach it to an email, & it will get you more real responses. Scammers often put up fake ads then ask for people's email addresses, so those of us that have been burned by that will be more hesitant or wary to respond. As many ads as you've posted you can learn to attach pictures, add prices, or whatever the forum rules require.

Nice big roadster from Stearns Knight. They may have had an unorthodox engine design but you see it had full six intake & six exhaust ports, as well as a crossflow engine design thus giving 65 horsepower in early years without a complex cylinder head. Most overhead valve engines were not even crossflow (intake on opposite side of engine from exhaust). Modern overhead cam engines are nearly universally a crossflow design which generally gives better power & possibly better efficiency.

Picture or link to pictures?

I'd like to learn more about this. As in real estate, doing our "due diligence" to research the ownership & look for any liens is a given. While it's not too hard to search authenticity of known paperwork, I think a vehicle with no paperwork could be more of a sticky wicket. I imagine there are books or websites with details on this subject for those to whom it would apply.

I just saw another recent pic of the same car titled 1911 Auburn.

Is it part of a carbide gas generator? Doesn't water drip on a piece of carbide or something & make gas? I've never studied one or how they work. Do they use a return?

Ha! That makes sense. Is the handle a pump, vent, or what please? (I remembered the Wagner name but forgot exactly what they made, & didn't bother to look it up.)

Lol! Thanks to All! It looks like it might be a decent larger 4 cylinder car. I'm guessing they would win that race handily, especially considering his competition. I don't imagine it's a powerhouse but anything bigger than a "T" should be better riding & driving too.

I've seen pics of that type car before. I thought Oldsmobile at first also. The 1903 era is right. I have pics of similar cars but they don't match - one is a Stevens Duryea gas car, another is an American Electric. It looks like a steam car with it's a boiler in back & condensing coils under the front. But that could just be the flywheel in back. Still looking...

Cool! Thanks! I thought I'd seen one with high lights like that before... but couldn't find it online. Yep that looks like it, sans the weird snaky horn! 2nd pic of that type horn I've seen in a day. I thought the hood line was rising as it went back. Your pic shows that too. I'm gonna study online to find something about Hupmobile. Seems like they petered out fairly quick, by the Depression? If you have a minute feel free to add any detail about them. Else thanks anyway.. :-) I plan to be having more fun on this site now that I've found it. :-) TK

I think that looks like an OLD grease gun or oiler for lubricating a car's moving parts, but it could be from some other machinery too. The bracket on it & screw threads seems to indicate it was attached permanently. Some old Brass Era cars (from the 19-teens) had things like that but I thought they were usually longer or a little larger. You need an expert to answer.

I found this picture studying Richmond County, N. Carolina history. I've looked for many many hours but still can't surely identify what make of car is the big one near the middle. This is just for curiosity's sake.. What stands out to me are gas headlights high mounted on a cross bar, the plain flat fenders that curve downward at the front & are really close to the tires, the relatively short, peaked radiator with steep angled top, an apparent "crease" in hood where top meets sides, the gentle curve of the frame rails where they meet the front springs, relatively small wheels compared to some really expensive cars, right hand drive (common but worth noting), it may have a straight front axle or may not, it's hard to see in my pic, and it almost appears that there is a curved "cowl" of sorts between the hood & the dashboard. The windshield looks to be folded down. Thanks. UCGHandyman