John_Mereness

I will say that I pulled them off of ebay - seller is conniem489

Auburn Boattail with a customized grill insert

The Goodyear whitewall has concentric rings or ridges on it about 1/2 inch wide on the face of the whitewall (or blackwall) - a period correct tire. There is also a period correct Firestone tire.

Considering this dealership was open for probably 5-ish years, it is baffling that most of the photos of it are around time period of its grand opening.

1937hd45 AACA Member

The topic has come up in conversation as their publications rely a lot on auctions and other high profile sale - of which there are not many going on currently and I would say for the most part they lost their book store and news stand sales too (none of those businesses are open around here). I would say wise move to focus on Sports Car Market (which covers A to Z) - which by the way is a fabulous publication.

And, they bought a Lincoln Continental - that will be a recipe for disaster for them, but at least it will look nice in the garage

I thought they were neat until friends bought a CGSS to find out it did not have a starter and was sort of a fierce beast with the hand crank, so we had to push start it time and time again.

"We don't give awards to ugly cars" - CLASSIC Don!!!

Many an enjoyable dinner!!! Wonderful family!!!

It probably is fine at that price post some haggling, but realistically I probably would have found the needed parts or a parts car and bundled the pieces or two together (my guess is higher priced obscure cars scare the hell out of more people than not - the really handy fabricators perhaps do not want a project at this price and the unhandy ones know the restoration shop bills will be ....). Perhaps the definition of between a rock and a hard place.

I assume just the norm of personal preference in custom built cars. My guess is a totally custom made fender and the Buffalo style wheels really are easier to mount and dismount.

Again, a car like this has some serious pluses as when you are done with it there are certain parts on it that will stand much taller than the rest or the herd - and hate to say it, but would not surprise me if choice pieces find there way to an open car restoration project and the car be offered again in another year or so slightly more disassembled.

We are shooting for 500 pages now

Isn't the V-12 basically a shortened up V-16 ? I know an AACA member by the name of Dwayne Pansing (Dayton, OH) had a fabulous original 1931 V-12 Sport Touring that had belonged to Charles Kettering (and it had an engine turned engine compartment) and he swore his car would run circles around any V-16, though my guess is his car was possibly "hopped up" given its ownership history. By the way, that same garage the V-12 came from had an interesting car in it still when I was a kid - a one-off 1941 Cadillac 60 Special Fleetwood 4 door Convertible Sedan (I saw it at maybe age 7 in 1972-ish and it survived that long in near pristine condition so no doubt it still survives).

Note how technically the "same" car has such dramatically different looks - the car in the top photo having a black top with light colored edging, no-sidemount spare tires, chrome wheel disk covers over wires, and whitewalls, while the lower car has tan top with dark colored edging, sidemount spare tires, painted wheel disk covers, and blackwalls.

Yes, I am saw the Old Motor pieces noting the Falls Cord Roadmaster tire, though I have always seen them attributed to Vogue, including in Vogue's history: https://www.voguetyre.com/about-us , There is some interesting internet reading about Cooper and Falls, the the name "Cooper Falls Roadmaster", and ... out on internet: The Cooper Corporation, the M and M Company, and The Falls Rubber company merged in 1930 to form the Master Tire and Rubber Company. The company name was changed to Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in 1946. My guess is one of the tires exists in some dusty garage corner and would be fun to read the labeling, plus we need to find a "period" advertisement or ...

I swear I saw the "Bevo Boat" as a little kid via one of the many visits to Ted Cull's out on North Main Street in Dayton. OH - Ted had a really nice original 1929 Packard Standard 8 Club Sedan (that he accidentally lost in Kruse Auction shenanigans) and had the customized 1938 Lincoln LeBaron Convertible Sedan (that Ralph Marano bought after I answered a inquiry in Cars & Parts seeking the location of car - I doubt 10 people knew it existed), plus Ted was into V-16 Cadillac's, CCCA parts, and upgraded countless cars for Leo Gephart (Leo's shop was a couple more blocks down the street and we stored cars a couple more blocks from that). Anyway, I want to say the "Bevo Boat" was ROUGH, ROUGH, ROUGH and sitting in the side yard grass up on blocks and under a tarpaulin. 1938 Lincoln LeBaron Convertible Sedan commissioned by Lincoln dealer James H. Knox and attributed to Holden ‘Bob’ Koto, Alex Tremulis, & Ralph Roberts.

Thanks !!! And in the lower photo note the Cord L-29 Cabriolet with the customized slanted windshield.

Western Auto Tire

https://calisphere.org/item/1439c263b50eeb36d38d06b4c1e58b77/ Image / Mayor Bowron and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in car