West Peterson

Does this qualify as a "barn find"? My brother just pulled this car out of a "U Store It" type place (last Saturday). It had been sitting there for 15 years with a cover on it. The owner of the car died more than 5 years ago. Just as the storage company was to auction it off, the daughters of the deceased owner were found. The daughters sold it to my brother. It started up and runs smoooooth. Rust-free Florida car with a four-speed.

My brother just pulled this out of 15 years of hibernation and already stuck a vanity tag on it.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: joe_padavano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Seems like every soccer-mom-driven SUV has some variation of "4R5SONS" or "R4KIDS" or something like that. I guess they're just trying to rationalize why they need that vehicle. Of course, whenever I see one, only the driver is inside... </div></div> You don't think four or five kids is a rational reason for a van or SUV? ... and let's see... if I drive my kids to school, or to the soccer field, or to band practice, I should then go home and get my VW Beetle so that you won't see me in my "empty" SUV.

Are you asking about the original license plate? or the license plate frame?

INCOMING!!!!!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rbl2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've got gremlin problems. Y'all best stay away from me with that pet gorilla y'all have. </div></div> Yah... gremlins and gorillas, they don't get along too well.

The reason for the shroud is that the larger-for-1928 Chevrolets were designed with the six-cylinder engine in mind. The Six wasn't introduced until 1929, so the shroud was installed on the 1928s.

Maybe Jewett.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rbl2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">An 1100!!!! WOW, that's an old car. </div></div> Not just an 1100, Bill... but an 1100 T !!!

I see the similarities.

I found a little information here. Evidently Mayfair was more common on Alvis and Lagonda. This story is about a Mercedes-Benz 540K roadster that was bodied by Mayfair. http://www.sportscarmarket.com/Profiles/2007/December/German/

Leif That looks to be the car. Those aren't stock headlights on the photo that you posted.

I believe Marshall might have been a little late arriving on the Glidden due to tire problems. I think he had a flat tire on his tow vehicle, his trailer and the Model A itself. I'm not sure about the Model A's trailer, but that might have had a flat, too. He told me he wanted to transfer the gorilla off his back and onto mine. Sure enough, I got a flat two days later.

My father has written an obit that I will run in the January issue. I didn't get it until after the November-December issue was done.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 58Mustang</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am the least PC person that you will ever meet. I just don't think, and I am not alone, that these terms are proper. </div></div> The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

All kidding aside, it looks like a "bitsa." The body looks to have been built in the mid-1920s, based on the windshield configuration. The long sweeping fenders appear to be early 1930s, although wood wheels were on their way out by that time. The rear fender/wheel area looks a little out of sorts, to me, doesn't fit quite right. Maybe it was put together for some movie.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vertigo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Although the top car is right-hand drive, and carries British plates, it looks to be of American origin, and possibly a common name. I suspect the grille may be a unique installation. That said, it might be a 1929 Dreil-Sprail HV with the 7-cylinder rotary engine. </div></div> Not a bad guess. You are correct that the HV Series carried the 7-cylinder rotary engine, but that series wasn't introduced until 1931. For 1929, the Dreil-Sprail DT Series used a still-born in-line six-cylinder engine. In an innovative attempt at cutting manufacturing costs, the block and cylinders were cast together. It was doomed from the beginning. If this car was running, I highly doubt it carried the original engine.

Any bicycle tires out there like that? Or would they not be able to handle the weight?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TheMoneyPit</div><div class="ubbcode-body">--- Side note, Pulfer & Williams are reproducers of emblems and are still around as far as I know. It is now owned by Bill Williams who wrote one of hte best books on Hood Ornaments I know of, but was founded by Harry Pulfer. The early items from them are from the 1960's and are now getting old enough to fool many an expert collector.</div></div> Sadly, Bill died in September. He bought out Pulfer a long time ago, but kept the name on the business. His wife will be selling the business. She and her daughter were manning the booth at Hershey this year. I've known Bill practically my whole life, certainly as long as I can remember.

Are the lug nuts tight?

Although the top car is right-hand drive, and carries British plates, it looks to be of American origin, and possibly a common name. I suspect the grille may be a unique installation. That said, it might be a 1929 Dreil-Sprail HV with the 7-cylinder rotary engine.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Twitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sounds like it's a reason an artist ends up with art instead of something the looks like it was designed by a comittee. There's leeway to create and let it flow with no restrictions. Sometimes artists of sculpture or any medium don't exactly know where the work will take them when they begin </div></div> Exactly why most concours poster art looks like the dog's lunch after it has thrown it up all over the grass!!!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: georgealbrightg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The fenders are all 4 rear fenders off of a 1942-48 Lincoln,with the front ones turned backwards!</div></div> It'll be interesting to hear what comes up on this car. You keep saying the fenders in front are rear 1942-48 Lincoln fenders, "turned backwards." I don't see that. They look like they're facing their normal direction to me. It wouldn't make sense to turn them around, especially since they left the taillights on them.

A quick phone call to the hotel would answer that!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R W Burgess</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You’ll find later that the tools you bought cheap weren’t worth the money. You’ll buy parts you could have made yourself and try to make things you should have bought………and discovered that what you did the first time wasn't nearly good enough!” Wayne </div></div> Boy! He sure hit the thumb with the hammer with that!