John_Mereness

Interesting, most RR PI (American and English) cars I have been in tend to be very suited for tall people - once they were behind the drivers seat after doing the monkey thing to get into the car. My car was suited probably for 6 foot to 6'3" - and any shorter you would have had a bear of a time. I recall my mom's cousin driving it in the 1970's - he sat on a phone book and had pedal extenders, plus looked between steering wheel and dash - pretty unsafe driving like that too. My two 25/30 cars were fine too all be it awkward as all out to have part of the front seat basically cut away under you for the gear shift and emergency brake - felt like you were always balancing on a ball (a key reason why I did not like either car and they were just passing through).

There is a lot of pressure via shareholders that procurement units to spit pennies and unfortunately at times and in the wrong hands goes a little too far and actually hurts the business - same goes with procurement units that do not foster relationships. The point being that the pressure is so on via large corporations to maximize profits, .... and ultimately the end result should be everyone in the chain also looking to maximizing efficiency so it ALL works. As to AAA, I have never had a problem - super efficient in the Greater Cincinnati area.

They also tended to brew a little something special for the employees for Christmas and special occasions - my educational path was designed by Jim and Charles Koch (father & Son with Charles designing Jim's initial product line) - you see Jim via Samuel Adams/Boston Beer Company - Jim, Charles, and their Grandfather were all Brewmasters, the grandfather had worked for Anheuser Busch in St. Louis - I cannot recall the Brewery the grandfather worked for in Cincinnati, though they moved from St. Louis to Cincinnati via depression (he drove a 27 or 29 LaSalle Sedan and then later had several Lincoln Zephyr cars - I should have paid more attention to the endless stories while riding in the car to CCCA events and ... with Charles).

Yes, pretty close - I always thought the photo was of a Twelve and then upon closer look I noticed the chrome strips around the runningboard edges and hubcaps - all be it hard to see hubcaps clearly given lighting/angle (it's a very well optioned Super Eight).

I bet this 1934 Packard was a year old at most when it was photographed (aka it is a virtually new car w/ photo being from 1934 to 1935). And, with styles of cars rapidly changing if 1935, I would guess is important enough to photograph that they would have sought a new 1935. Could be just the angle, though looks a little short on front tire tread.

Also sports Spotlamps, Goddess of Speed, and Bumper Guards. And, I am not sure if accessory or standard, but it has Wheel Trim Rings too. The only accessories this 1934 is really not sporting accessory wise are a Luggage Trunk and a set of Sidemount Spare Tire Mirrors. I also assume they had the option of Chrome Wheel Hubs and Spokes (painted rims) that was also offered as an option for 1935. Sidenote: Via double chrome edged running board chrome trim - this appears to be a Super Eight with upgraded Twelve style painted grill shell/chrome louvers and bumpers.

I recall a drive with Ron Andrews in his unrestored 1931 Franklin 151 Pursuit Touring and he never touched the clutch - he said when you drive a car nearly every day for most of your life you can learn to do that - then he looked at me very intently and said something to the gist of "if I tried it I would probably blow the Detroit up, so I best not use him for my driving example."

You generally can hear when a car needs to shift - when you loose that sound ... Not many, though on rare occasion you get a car a brass through 30's non syncromesh car that you have to shift straight through due to timing as transmission looses the speed you need matched to gear engineering. I had a bear of a time with the November 1932 built RR PI and then someone (I think Ed) said the car being so late in production may have a transmission brake on it and I was doing it wrong - turned out it shifted straight through like butter. The 30 Franklin 147 with the Detroit 4 speed (also used in Stutz M) also needed shifted straight through - if you double clutched you usually ended up pulled off the road and starting off from scratch again (this was supposed to be a revolutionary transmission, but ... - lets just say by 1931153 cars came along they were using Warner for good reason - not sure but early J Duesenbergs also used some sort of Detroit and they were basically recalled). A few people have since spoke of Mercers and such that they had trouble double clutching though found they could go straight through.

Yes, my belief is that this car is the perfect garage queen and show field queen, cool engineering for the time too, but if you had a number of cars in the garage it probably would be far from your favorite for touring. The RR PI was sort of that way in a car for me - every time I ran it dad just rolled his eyes and said he did not want to hear me gripe about it complexity when I had to work on it (he was very kind to hold the shop light and to help me gets parts to and from the machinest, but not a day when by that he did not say; "Lovely car, let it be a lovely car for someone else").

Sorry, too far gone - best to restore (all be it the 51 plate could be slightly upgraded - touch up the white at least).

http://dons-neatstuff.com/brewster2.htm

I am best guessing things went from bad to worse and this is the same car: https://barnfinds.com/rough-parts-of-town-car-1935-brewster-town-car/

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/AZ18/Arizona/lots/r234-1934-brewster-ford-convertible-sedan/620802

Cool car - it is like a 34 or 35 Ford. There are several surviving 4 door convertibles, though I have not seen a 4 door convertible modified to a sedan (very RR PII style)

I am thinking a generous soul perhaps "helped" the bidding along - Car has serious potential to win at Concours events (matched to be center of attention), but you would need to re-restore it and again the wood wheels do nothing for it and will not allow car to achieve what someone wants to via a razor edge formal towncar (which there are probably not 30 surviving cars of the body style across all marques). In the famous word's of Don Peterson (West's dad") - "don't give award to ugly cars."

Sidenote: Correct - Ordinary solder does not plate well - Silver Solder is best choice for items you want to plate

Some cars do not allow you to double clutch as you only have so much time to shift and that few extra seconds of double clutching does not help the cause.

7" Pilot Ray lights are pretty uncommon - just keep trying (and ebay may be your best bet over time). Sidenote: I think a 7" set is very nice look.

After, my sister's wedding I loaded everyone up in my 1941 Cadillac 60's Special Fleetwood and headed from the Country Club into downtown Columbus. She had a formal wedding so it was tuxedos and gowns. As we were driving back the lights fickered and then car went dead. A nice group of very butch women in a brand new Volkswagen Beetle stopped to ask of if we needed a push - I said yes (amy date certainly was not dressed to push) and they said their VW was a lemon and they had been pushing it all over town so happy to help. We made it in front of the Ohio State Stadium to have it die again in the crosswalk (I saw every City police officer telling me to move it, but I said they could push it if they wanted - they said no-thank-you as they were not allowed and I said we were done and I had called AAA) - I also saw thousands of fans. When the tow truck arrived a bunch of drunk fans started beating up the tow truck driver screaming at him that pretty cars like that should not be towed - I said I had an after party to get to and they stopped, apologized, and helped him.

The 1931 Cadillac V-12 Convertible Sedan (by the sign) was also owned by Al Fisk, then bought by the Perin's and was sold perhaps 10 years ago (it was a dark red with black fenders and redish/orange wheels with stainless spokes). The 1929 Lincoln (three in from the right) is a leather topped "top Hat' Limousine and was owned by Tom Peuhl, a former Cincinnati Reds baseball player - last time I saw it was perhaps 12 years ago and it was a "spectacular" original condition totally untouched all be it with ancient truck tires - black with alligatored red paint on the brake drums (interestingly being a black car and having factory tan canvas sidemount tire covers) - it originally was a City of Cincinnati Mayor's vehicle - I lost track of it and do not know where it went after Tom & Betty's death (use to see them once a month at local British car club activities - they also had a Type 57C Bugatti Gangloff bodied Convertible Victoria that occasionally made it out to Cincinnati/Ault Park Concours). The 1938 Cadillac 75 Series Cabriolet stayed around town until the 80's - it had a tank engine installed and still ran just as bad as it did before that - doubt it ever finished an AACA tour no matter how hard they tried.

This RR PI Tilbury was owned at the time by Cincinnatian Al Fisk and is now owned by AACA forum member "Motoringicons" - it is an upgraded original car and other than engine work, maintenance, and tires it probably has had little change to it from when this photo was taken. The 25/30 next to that was owned by Herb Krombholz a local Cincinnati Jeweler and the car was sold in late 90's to an employee and eventually I believe it made it's way back to England. Shawn Miller and I recently sold their 1925 RR PI Mulliner Touring upon Herb & Mary's death about three years ago.

Also note the license plate on the Buick reads "Hawaiian Orchid"

Having watched the video, I would say the color is slightly off on the film, though the Buick is "pinks" nevertheless - Given the geography this car could have slipped into a Custom shop such as Bohman & Schwartz, Coachcraft, or ...., though could be some accessory shop specialized in Chrome Gravel Guards. The 1939 LaSalle Bohman & Schwartz bodied car I restored had similar Chrome Gravel Guards (and I have seen similar on a runningboard delete 1939 Packard 160 Convertible sporting Bohman & Schwartz badges).

Sort of the problem - you want people to know the car, but you also want to be able to show it yourself. I ran the Franklin around to a few Concours events, won its 1st CCCA badge - I would say it allowed me an extra 20K on the sale via the badge matched to allowing quite a bit of word of mouth that it was a quality restoration. The Guyton cars suffered from all needing a few thousand of attention (aka, most had sat lot enough they needed road-worthiness and most needed a thorough detailing). The Cunningham at anything over 100K will be going nowhere for a long long time (and I am being generous in this comment) - Has strong potential though to be a really cool car on the showfield.

Seemed that way to me also - nice cars, but all now with older restorations and ....