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Interior suggests it's the base Marquis for 1978, not mid-level Grand Marquis.
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/mercury/78mq/78mq.html
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On 10/21/2019 at 8:59 PM, jeff_a said:
A 1930 Peerless Mod. 6-61A Sedan has been discovered. Marc Mougin from Brittany, France owns it. It was purchased new in Argentina...a brass plaque denotes the Peerless dealer, Modesto de la Fuente. 30 years ago the car was in Italy, then it was brought to France and restored.
Hi Jeff,
You may want to share this image with Marc Mougin if you have his contact info,
as it is the Buenos Aires dealership where his Peerless was sold.
TG
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13 hours ago, kingrudy said:
Love this year Merc. Nice style, should be no problem with rust as Oxnard, Calif. not on the coast.
Oxnard is on the coast, west of LA and south of Ventura.
But the Merc looks like a good example, probably reupholstered and restored to some level.
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15 hours ago, 58L-Y8 said:
He will have a revelation when he tries to run the A/C that's not there. No compressor, air scoops on the quarter panels, clear plastic tube ducts running out of the package shelf to the headliner registers. Otherwise, looks like a nice example.
Guess he hasn't figured out that the chrome vent on the hump is the radio speaker, and not an AC outlet.
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5 hours ago, MikeC5 said:
I came across the Sanborn maps but could only find the downtown area. Thanks TG. Interesting that it shows it as a private garage. Maybe it was rented out to those wanting to store cars? It’s not a fancy neighborhood, no mansion needing an elaborate carriage house... curious....
I imagine it was a privately owned garage that serviced all manner of cars and trucks. Not affiliated with any particular manufacturer.
There were several in my town.
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The 1921 New London, CT, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map shows 3 buildings of a private service-type garage
(and residence) at 40-48 Jefferson Ave. at the intersection of Wall and Grand streets. The structure(s)
in your image at 48 Jefferson are still similarly configured.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3784nm.g3784nm_g011521951/?sp=34&r=-0.188,0.001,1.5,0.63,0
TG
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The Elysium, Peerless Summer showroom in Cleveland, Ohio.
Note how the passenger-side front doors are missing from both the 1926 Peerless Taxicabs in this Elysium
showroom photo. Perhaps they were offered that way to use the space for luggage, or the buyer could specify
a fully-enclosed driver's compartment. The 1927 survivor that exists in England has its passenger front door.
TG
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250 Peerless Taxicabs for New York City...
From the April 30, 1926 Peerless Co-Operator.
TG
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On 12/10/2020 at 11:29 AM, jeff_a said:
Excellent Peerless piece, Tom. It's May, 1930, but the Victoria in back is a '29. Can't tell about the Sedan...could be a '29 6-81 or a '30 Standard 8, but the "A", "B", "C" models(Standard/Master/Custom) would have fender lights instead of cowl lights, I think. There are a couple of Peerlesses in Argentina, including and Opera Coupe/Victoria.
Thanks. Often press photos are months old when published, with editors relying on submitted material.
The building shows workmen working, perhaps painters, so there's no telling the date of the images.
TG
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The green Lincoln is a Mercury-based Series 1EL, not a Cosmopolitan Series 1EH.
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The Peerless distributor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1930.
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This service truck of Peerless of Johnstown, PA appears to be made from a touring car, as the back doors are still visible.
Wouldn't that be a fun find, tucked away somewhere and forgotten in a Pennsylvania barn?
From the June 24, 1927 Peerless Co-Operator.
TG
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Is it a Touring Sedan with trunk...
...Or a Sedan with rear spare?
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Only way to know for sure if it's a '39 with a '40 front clip would be to know its serial number.
This is a '39 Nash Ambassador 8, at Hershey last year.
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From the 1962 Ford Taxi brochure - a V-8 was offered as well as a Six.
Outside of big city fleet buyers, small taxi companies used whatever they could.
http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Ford/1962_Ford/1962 Ford Taxicabs Brochure/index1.html
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Wonderful images!
Harrah's Collection featured the New York to Paris Thomas Flyer on the cover of their 1965 Roster.
We visited it in 1968 and I was hooked, and years later I purchased several rosters at a friend's estate sale.
I'll let you figure out which of the collection's Rolls-Royces is in the color slide, from this listing in the '65 Roster.
TG
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1 hour ago, 46 woodie said:
There is just something in the air at this time of year that tells us that HERSHEY is coming. Sadly as we all know, we won't be attending this year. This would have been number 52 for us, started in 1968, so you can imagine how we feel. Call me crazy, but I miss the mud. There were times that we took off our boots before walking into our motel. We were covered in mud up to our knees. I often wonder what the people that were staying in our motel, that didn't know about HERSHEY thought. Let's all pray that 2021 will be better.
Given that there is no Hershey this year, 2021 will be your 53rd. For those who keep count if you have consecutive attendance for x-number of years, you still will when it resumes in 2021 - you can't miss something that didn't happen.
TG
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On 1/7/2020 at 4:07 AM, Narve N said:
You are absolutely correct. Dammann and myself mixed it up and here is the same picture (low resolution) from a period Chrysler leaflet. It was a Kellner Cvt Cp made for King Carol II of Romania:
The '31 Imperial by Kellner, from the July 1932 issue of Chrysler-Plymouth Overseas Graphic magazine,
published for foreign markets by the Chrysler Export Corporation, Detroit, MI.
It is by Alexis Kellner of Berlin, not Kellner of Paris.
https://www.coachbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=157&t=15347
A 1932 Imperial by Drauz for King Carol II, from from the January 1935 issue of Chrysler-Plymouth Overseas Graphic magazine.
King Carol II had a large stable of coachbuilt cars.
https://www.coachbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=266&t=1689
Caption from above,
"Personalities...
La SARAL, S.A., our distributors in Bucharest have kindly sent us this interesting picture of His Majesty Carol II, King of Romania, (sitting) in his brand new Imperial Chrysler during the festivities recently held in the capital of the kingdom."
King Carol II is the man in plumed hat and moustache in the back seat of the Imperial coachbuilt by Drauz of Heilbronn, Germany.
There are similarities between these two Imperials, as in 1930 Kellner went bankrupt and its name and patent rights were bought by Drauz.
TG
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22 hours ago, jeff_a said:
I'm curious about the other photos. Are they almost identical body styles w/ black wire wheels, a folding top, dual rear spares, fully-plated headlights and light-colored fenders? ----Jeff
These are the other three, at the same Ward Lines' pier but without snow on the ground and poised in front of the SS Orizaba.
Also a Lazarnick image, their coats suggest it's winter or at least cold outside. In one image, the Phaeton on the right is aerial,
being heaved over into the ship's hold - with the gent in the hat at far right sitting in the driver's seat. Talk about bravery!
Same wheel/ tire combo, one with the Cadillac-style grille (a Six?). I'm a newbie on a Peerless learning curve, and hope to find something
in the bound, 53 Peerless Co-Operator issues I just bought from Troxel's. They're from June '25 to Sept '27. My travel to Havana is for
research for a book about the cars of Cuba when they new, all pre-Embargo, and finding these Peerless images was a real surprise.
The Phaeton on the the left has top bows, and the one on the right looks to have panels with caning on its door tops,
a neat custom touch. I guess by '26-'27 they no longer used the permanent top. Besides private purchasers, these open
cars were used by hotels and tourist companies, often seen lined up at docks awaiting disembarking ship passengers
ready to tour the city. The aerial image of the caned Phaeton shows dual rear-mounted spares,
so it would make sense they are all so-equipped.
I need to join the the Peerless Club, but can find no Web presence. Can you shoot me a PM with info?
Thanks!
TG
(Tom Gibson)
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Here's an update on the "Silver Eight Phaeton" image that I mentioned above. C.T. Silver was out of the coachbuilding biz by around 1920,
so perhaps it commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the NY Auto Show, and may have been painted a silver color.
On a recent trip to Havana, Cuba, I bought this press pic and 3 others that were taken at the New York & Cuba Mail Line's (aka Ward Line)
docks in NYC, now the location of the South Street Seaport. They are all Peerless touring cars poised in front of Ward Line ships, here, the
SS Siboney. This 1925 Model 67 Touring appears to be the one in the NY Auto Show image, but its wheels have been changed. It looks to
have the same tires, with their white dots as seen at the show. The other 3 Peerless cars wear the same type of wire wheels and are being
loaded onto the Ward Line's SS Orizaba, apparently bound for Havana if the markings on the photos are correct.
This image alone has snow on the ground, not conclusive, but points to it being winter, around the January 1925 time-frame of the NY show.
I could hardly contain my excitement when I turned the images over and saw they were from Nathan Lazarnick, and was surprised to learn
that in addition to his Broadway location he had also worked out of a Cleveland studio.
A blurb in the April 19, 1923 Automotive Industries notes that Nathan Lazarnick opened a Cleveland studio at the request
of the White Motor Company, and there would have been plenty of extra work from Peerless, Chandler, Jordan and others.
The plot thickens, in a post I had forgotten about sent five years by our young Finnish friend and prewar enthusiast,
Mika Jaakkola... "Is there any truth in this? This caption is from a Finnish magazine from 1925. It says
'This year at the NY and Chicago auto shows, among other automobiles, Peerless received special attention.
The car's body, wheels, fenders and brake drums were pure silver.' It was published in the April issue."
So now I'm wondering if the Silver Special Touring was shipped to Cuba after its appearance at the NY and Chicago shows,
perhaps having a wheel swap because of Havana's tropical climate, or because they were solid silver!
As is often the case, the images offer more questions than answers.
TG
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Same here, today...
Error code 20
The proxy failed to connect to the web server, due to TCP connection timeout.
2020-09-04 02:52:23 UTC
I was able to login with my phone, but don't know why that route worked.
TG
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Great car, and the Forward Look crowd would eat it up in a heartbeat. The 3-speed manual was standard on Newport and Windsor models.
They made 1,832 Newport Town & Country 6-pass. wagons in '61, and 1,571 Newport Town & Country 9-pass. wagons - which is it?
If it's as good as it looks, I'm at the $20-30K range, and suggest putting it on Bring a Trailer.
It will give you global exposure (so will Hemmings), and to some funksters the manual tranny is a plus.
Just 3% of Chryslers had a manual in 1961, so given the low T&C numbers yours must be one of very few that remain.
TG
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3 hours ago, Lebowski said:
It's a flower car and hearse? Isn't the flower car usually used only for flowers and the casket is carried separately in a hearse? Maybe this combo one is used for those on a budget....
Yes, the same configuration as the white '41 Cadillac Flxible that began the thread. Depends on the funeral budget, I guess - why use two cars when one will perform both functions.
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This is a '49 Cadillac Flower Car and Hearse by Superior. The casket could be loaded from the rear doors on either side or from the rear.
TG
2021 AACA Annual Convention, Williamsburg, VA, June 3-5
in AACA - Shows and Tours
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