BobinVirginia

I enjoy the section views of mechanical systems. Thanks for sharing

Wow! Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

@Lozierman i enjoy hearing stories like this. Always amazing to hear about how things float through time relatively unknown or lost only to be discovered once again. Cool stuff

Amazing vehicles! Thank you for sharing! I really appreciate it

Thank you for your input! I’d like to thank the other contributors as well! I was thrilled when you informed me earlier that two owners of these cars replied! I really need to see some of these vehicles for myself.

It has the Light 6 which is 288 CI and onboard aiir compressor. Really a cool piece of history I want to drive

I’ll eventually tell its story. I’ve had soo many personal barriers I’ve not been able to move ahead with this car.

Interesting! I’ve never seen one and only have knowledge of them from the internet. That’s the real reason I started this thread. I want to hear actual experience of these fairytale cars. Being born in 1976 a lot of first hand experience has escaped me.

After many years of delay, my 1921 Haynes model 50 is finally getting tires and being moved out of storage 33x4 rubber

Very tasteful color combo period correct

Thank you for sharing! I’ve never seen one and would love to imagine how they drive. They’re very much a car out of my ownership but not out of reach for appreciation

How is the drivability of these? Are they laborious to drive? I see cars like this and wonder what the driving experience is like? The steering ratio in my Haynes is quite faster than I’d imagined. Makes me wonder what a car as massive as these are really like from a drivers perspective. Since it was a high end vehicle and assumed a chauffeur would drive, did driver experience matter? These are things I would like to know about such cars.

The massive engines are interesting too. They seem to be in a league with Pierce Arrow? Can anyone speak of the comparisons? Most people like myself assumed early cars were small cubic inch cars like Model T’s Ohhh boy was I wrong

Unbelievable Cars! Thank you all so much for pics! It’s surreal that these were actually a dealer option car at one time!!!

@Walt G Thank you for starting this!

@wayne sheldon To be very clear. I have no interest whatsoever in trying to copy one of these cars. When it was mentioned that others had tried to copy them I questioned how it would be possible to title such a car. Then the discussion left the Olds and steered off course. It would be fun if I had endless money and time to resurrect an extinct vehicle. Maybe? IDK? I would just like to know more about the big cars and hear about them. Hopefully the thread stays on that from here on! Lol The Haynes has happily had some progress. After years of delays thanks to everything from the pandemic, surgery, work and family commitments finally it’s starting. I’m lucky to have time for it much less a scratch built car. Thanks for the discussion and I often find subjects of which people are very passionate about within these forum topics.

A reprint of that painting would be epic man cave material. Are any available?

Man, that’s an expensive slippery slope. I can’t afford the original in several cases but it’d be nice to build a recreation. However, not at the detriment of the originals.

So if you fabricate a replica it’s withholding to the standards of the original time period?

Now that’d be fun to do. My question is, how do you title such a recreation? I’d love to recreate something but how to get around modern safety and emission bs?

That’s the article I had read while trying to educate myself. I don’t put much faith in internet information and still believe the 117 numbers are more appropriate for such a car at that time

@Larry Schramm I just found a number that states only 13 survive. Do you have any knowledge of that number? I did see a survivor car that was displayed at the AACA museum around 2009-10

Ok, perhaps i recalled the number wrong. Given such stature the number of 117 seems to fit better. Thanks

@Ozstatman WOW!! Thanks for sharing! That’s artwork on many levels.

Such a departure from the overpriced mold injected plastic of today! I love it