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Sorry I can't help. There are plenty of members that live in Florida. Any idea what area he went to?

I don't think we have a copy in the library but I saw his.

The first two are the ones I mean. The first one could be bought as of last June. I remembered the second being more crazy, but you would have to meet the guy that had it painted that way. The stripe is green. he carried the brochure in the car for proof.

John, I am sure you've done all the normal stuff, Google name, Roster, OLD rosters, etc. Good looking car! Joe Cozza has one similar in Conn, about the same color but I doubt that is it. There was also a maroon car in Canada. When restored the guy had it painted like the brochure, looked like a Harlacan? VW from the '96 Olympics. He used every color available from the factory, different color fenders and doors. Did a super restoration, we called it the clown car. I'd have to do some research to remember his name. I heard he died about 3 or so years ago, really nice guy. I forget which meet he had it to. Had a beautiful brown '18 touring at upper Mich. and a beautiful '36ish pickup in Texas.

Does anyone know if there was a four wheel drive unit available? It is on an ambulance.

That's the MIL look, I know it well for 50 years.

The owner is maybe 80, very nice guy. Hope he is OK.

22touring, I totally agree on the '24. As to Horace owning a '14 I don't know. The only cars that claim to have been owned by the Brothers are the closed car 1920's that are kept at Meadowbrook but owned by the Detroit Histerical Society. I can't imagine anyone having added that many accessories when it was new. The back window is wrong too, btw. When I first looked at the video I thought the front license said ZZ Top. And you are absolutely correct about the model 30 thing. DB did not ever call it by that name, only trade articles and manuals.

The touring is '14 to mid year '16 because of the exposed frame at the front fenders. The one with the top up is mid '16, early fenders and 6 cathedral windows in the top. If John doesn't know the hubcap we are screwed. He only needs 2 square inches to ID anything and is never wrong. It's not a normal DB hubcap by my eyesight.

I don't think I have ever seen the hubcaps like are on the front of the white ambulance before.

I think Boyertown museum has a Hoover Body as they specialize in PA. connected vehicles. York, PA. is about 25 miles to the south here. I guess it's possible this could be one. I THINK Al said he bought this one from N.J. We have several woodies in the club. There is a Cantrell fast four that was donated to Meadowbrook. Cantrells were sold through DB dealers. If you go through the sales receipts on the DBC website there are several Cantrells sold when new. The receipts are from a dealer NE of NYC. and Cantrell was from NY. When you get your new DBC news there's an article about a special feature of ours at AACA museum. As a hint, there ain't nothing new. It's all been done before.

Holy crap, I forgot there's a '17 touring DB at Fountainhead Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska. Fantastic museum with many one of a kind cars, all restored EXCEPT the DB. It was used to haul mail when there were no roads and has about 300,000 miles. They just had it running a few years ago for the dedication and ribbon cutting of a new bridge in town. Been there, have the hat.

I was in that dealership during filming. The owner sells license plates on ebay. In one scene you can see a woodie parked on the opposite side of the street from the dealership. That is Mark's car. Many of the cars driving were a club of Model T's from Oregon or Washington. We talked to the crew converting the cars to electric, pretty cool setup. AACA likes our woodie because they don't have one.

We THINK it is a Cantrell Suburban like your first picture. There is no coachbuilder body tag and I have never seen the pictures of what was found. ALL the wood was replaced in the restoration and they did excellent work. This may be a good place to list any other DBs in museums? I have seen pictures of another Truck Builder in New Zealand museum. Of course Meadowbrook has a few on display, but that is not a real museum. Of all the ones that I have found it's not that many. I have had my Light Repair Truck in two different museums for a few months. Mark's 1918 Staff Car has been in 3 that I know of. In 2014 there were several at AACA Museum for the 100th ann. which there is a video on Youtube. The 2014 AACA display had 15 DBs and then a few years ago we had 4 DBs in a dealership display for 6 months. And Mark has driven his Staff Car across the US twice on military convoys, once for the reinactment of Eisenhower's convoy of 1919 and again about 3 years ago. Both times on the Lincoln highway, rt. 30. And there were about 6 or 8 DBs on the set of 1923 TV series, which is part of the Yellowstone series. Some were converted to electric so normal people could drive them. Both police cars were electric with sound dubbed in. Did you see the DB dealership in the back round? It was a real dealership from the 1920's.

Thinking more about your statement, I have been to several museums with DBs in them. The DBC owned '25 is at AACA museum, the DBC owned 1919 Truck Builder is at Washington County Ag museum near Hagerstown, Md. Luray Caverns museum has a '15 and I think another one, Forney Museum in Denver, Co. has about a 1917 touring car, and Boyertown Museum in Boyertown, Pa. has a '28 victory sedan and a four cylinder engine. OH, and the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, In. has a early '20's touring car as the photo car for people to sit in and have their picture taken. I think it's the only non ACD car there. It was donated by a DBC member. Not a lot but some. DB was not a fancy car, more of a utility vehicle. Or as DB called it Dependibilty.

The sign for the DB is actually wrong, it's a '25. They were called Suburbans or station wagons. This car belongs to the Dodge Brothers Club and was donated to them by Al Witek. As to Youtubes of DBs you better do a search there. There are maybe 75 or 100 videos about them. I did one for Boyertown Museum about my Light Repair Truck several years ago. Boyertown also did a video of their 1928 DB Victory sedan. The TV in the back of the woodie has the factory video showing all the time of how DBs were built. It is available from the DBC store. BTW, the red 1910 Brush in the video is like the one bought and driven by the Abernathy brothers. If you are not familiar with the Abernathys google their story. It's funny that you would bring this up today. just yesterday I talked to the pres. Mark about starting a youtube channel for the club. Videos from Nat'l meets, how to, members cars, etc. could be put there.

I have a panoramic picture of the factory they assembled DBs in after they started to import chassis. It's about 3 feet wide and has maybe 40 cars out front in a row.

Without him I feel the car industry would have been much different for you Aussies. I had known his connection to DB before but did not realize how important he was to the whole industry. His concern was the product not just the money.

The DA sounds like a fun project. The Chevy not so much.

I think I would slit my wrists first rather then restore that Chevy.

Wish it looked like that here. Only see the sun every few days, cloudy and dreary most of the time. At least the white stuff is gone. So when does the DA project start?

So I guess that means we don't get a picture of you in a monkey suit and showphers hat?

Just google Cabin Fever Expo.

So Matt, how was the bloody wedding?

Many of the videos use the words "History" and "Dodge Brothers" in the title. All I can say is the ones I watched are easily misunderstood or inaccurate. Fred Haynes job from mid 1914 on was to line up subcontractors. He was given stock in the company to make the third member for the corporation. He accepted quotes for items they used from the beginning, speedometers, carbs, wheels, springs, magnetos, etc. If you want to read about this I just donated about a 3 inch thick notebook of his daily notes in his handwriting discussing these quotes from mid '14 to some time in 1916. The notebook is in the AACA library with all of the DBC literature. NO way could have they made all the parts themselves. If you look at a Book of Information, the owner's manual, most have lists of manuf. that were used such as Johns Manville, Detroit Lubricator, etc. MANY of the parts have the manufacturer's name right on the item. If you go to the DBC website there are 3600 scanned pictures from Budd Manuf. in Philadelphia that built the bodies. They all had a stamped Budd label under the front seat. The brothers were absolutely amazing for what they accomplished in their short lives.