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Truly breathtaking motorcar brad. Thanks for the photos, hope the Buick finds a good home Stephen

Brad can you post a couple photos?

OK 8 Ball The attached link will take you to a good photo of an 08 Olds. http://images.nypl.org/?id=482205&t=w The rear seat the rear door, the angle of the steering wheel and most of all the rear fender do not match-up. I still believe it's a McLaughlin 1910-1912 minus the top apparatus (sans top makes for a less cluttered studio shot) Stephen

Suggest you check out http://www.durantcars.com/catalogs/star/index.shtml also it might be worth posting an inquiry on the durant club webform http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/durant/ Good luck Stephen

Melissa The notation "Canada" leads me to assume that the family photo may have been taken in Canada. Based on that its my guess that the car in question is a 1912 Mclaughlin Buick. Not sure what model, but you can find a pretty good shot of the same side of a 12 McLaughlin on the City of Toronto web site http://gencat.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1244/f1244_it3195.jpg From what I can see it matches pretty well except the acetelene tanks in your photo appear to be missing in the Archival photo, however they might be hiding under that spare! Perhaps I am wrong but hopefully this will get the discussion going. Stephen

Definitely a sterling early 20s vintage, see http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/goudy/oberheide_coal_1920s_sterling.jpg for a vintage shot. The truck has the stylized S in the side of the rad and identical rad supports, and same script on rad face. As per the clue "home State" they were manufactured in Wisconsin which is Brad's "Home State". Stephen

Evan My suggestion is that you contact the publishers of pre-war car mag (an online zine). You can check it out at http://www.prewarcar.com/. They often run a mystery column and usually have great success (and fun) identifying photos of oddball European motor cars which have been submitted to them .... something many of us here in North America (with a few exceptions of course) are rather poor at. Stephen

Hello South If you are looking for vintage illustrations and photos of 20s Marmons I recommend that you go to ebay.com right now and type "Marmon ad" into the search box . Quite a few vintage Marmon ads are posted for sale and in most cases you can preview them. Also check out vintage paper sellers such as http://shop.vendio.com/vintageads4u and http://paperboynews.com/. In addition (just in case you haven't discovered it yet) there is a Marmon Club web site at http://www.marmonclub.com/ Hope this helps Stephen

I agree. Thanks for this 1937hd45. I advised the owner (of the photo). I suspect that he was a bit disappointed at the Thomas Flyer ID as he was hoping to have uncovered a photo of a home-grown Saskatchewan Car. Stephen

The attached photo was taken in Kamsack Saskatchewan sometime in the early teens. The front fenders point to a pre 1910 build date. The owner of the photo believes the car may be a "standard" built in Moose Jaw Sask. Messing around with the picture in photo shop I did notice that there appears to be three embossed letters accross the top of the rad however due to the quality of the photo this could simply be a visual disturbance. Opinions (and evidence) on who built this vehicle and when would be welcomed. Thanks Stephen

There just happens to be a well restored 1919 Dodge Touring on e-bay right now http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodge-Dod...spagenameZWDVW. Looks very much like your photo however the number of clincher lugs does not match up. Perhaps those more familiar with turn of the century tire technology can explain whether that is a material difference or not. Stephen

If it is an Apperson it's a rare photo. Not much on the web showing what they looked like pre 1915. Too bad we can't just zoom in on that rad badge and get a difinitive answer. Definitely an Apperson jack-rabbit logo on the rad but not sure if it was added to the car because it looked "cool". Apperson lost the brass style in around 1915 ( see http://www.paperboynews.com/inventorydetail.asp?number=010931 ) so the subject car has to be a 12 to 14, if indeed it is an Apperson. For comparison You can find a photo of a 12 Apperson at http://cgi.ebay.com/59-Detroit-MI-Charli...bayphotohosting Body is a pretty good match but the cowl is not quite identical and those marker lamps have gone electric, suggesting that it is in fact a 1914 model? Stephen

Did you know, Franklin bodies were all aluminum until 1929. Not sure if these are Franklin but I bet the folks at the HH Franklin Club could tell you. http://www.franklincar.org/ Stephen

Looks like Oxnard is right. Check out the factory photo of the 1919 H50 Buick at http://cgi.ebay.com/1919-Buick-Model-50-...1QQcmdZViewItem All seems to match up except the pinstriping on the hood, and that spare rim. Looks like someone rear ended it! Stephen

Welcome Fletch Calling all peerless experts! The car in question looks a lot like a 1916-1920 Peerless limo. Everything I can see ( there is some stuff that just is not discernable like the door shape) matches up except the side hood lovers ( too few) perhaps a Peerless expert is lurking and can tell us if Peerless produced any models with louvers matching those on this car. BTW for comparison see http://peerlessmotorcar.com/images/Limo1920.jpg Stephen