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PRF No. 495. Two examples of Peerless Model 56 Victoria Landaus. 1917 or 1918 One in California 2014

494. A custom-bodied Peerless, I believe a Demarest-Peerless Town Car from the Chicago Auto Salon. '23 Skidoo!

Does anyone know someone with a red 8-series SC Auburn Convertible Sedan named Bartlett? He was on a VMCCA tour up here. I have a photo on my cell phone, but the phone/website transition is not doable.

It looked perfect to me. Not Boca Raton Concours perfect...but I saw the whole 1/2" of water we got last night towelled off and saw nary a flaw.

FUNNY That You Showed That Picture! I was reading this thread in some pizza joint or gin mill.... * * * * * An hour later..........I saw that '40 LaSalle go by. I'm in Salmon, Idaho and this car drove into town. I also saw a 60s Mustang, and a Studebaker Avanti. 55 cars on a VMCCA "Lewis & Clark Tour". Talked to the owners of this LaSalle, and a '35 Auburn Convertible Sedan this morning as they left their motel parking lot. Both owned by people from Texas. 9:00 this morning as the last 2 cars headed to Montana: https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOYD3ouSnJ8A18fZG7O21itYIkqPbf7WD1e1zKY

Here you go, John: from the CCCA - General, Elcar thread with 4 pages of posts. You may not have recognized it as the same car. ...Kansas, about 1930, with my Dad, Aunt Geneva, and Grandmother Brown. In 2012 at the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan. Since it's a CCCA Classic, it's appropriate that the CCCA Museum is behind it.

The photo above was taken about 1995. The Turquoise & Royal Blue 1926 Landau Roadster was my Grandfather Brown's about 1927-1990. It's a Model 8-81 with a straight-eight Lycoming engine.

Hi Old Car Fan, Here's a picture of the inside of the Elcar Museum...from the CCCA General/Elcar thread, which you've probably found already. Courtesy of V.Milke.

The Elcar Thread on CCCA - General has 135 posts and 22,700 views now. I have a copy of the Elcar book but haven't found it yet.

Apologies, old car fan, I misspelled Tipton...which I thought was where the Elcar museum was. Correction: Bristol, Indiana. There's a long series of posts on the "CCCA, General" Forum here with 4 pages of Elcar info, including some photos of the inside of the museum. It's possible the museum is not around anymore. It's a private collection...I think V.milke stated on those pages he has been there. WOAH! MISTAKE! Sorry....I misremembered the town the Elcar Museum is in. It's BRISTOL, Indiana, in Elkhart County. i found the correct town looking in a thread: "Elcar project, parts needed", by V.Milke running from 2009-2019.

In my opinion, it's later than 1926, since there is no R-R-style rad shell. My Grandfather's '26 had one of those. There is an Elcar Museum in Tipton [Correction: Bristol], Indiana.....and a book on the marque. Maybe it's a 1929 8-78, like the July 23rd post above shows.

Wow, ten miles away from you! Still has chain drive, too.

Here's a radiator mascot that's more of a motometer ornament. It was only supplied to Peerless dealers with high sales records, according to a Canadian auction company. As you know, auction catalogs never exaggerate. I find this tasteful, circa 1924. ... Here's a circa-1927 original Peerless Eagle radiator mascot. American Arrow used to make a repro in stainless steel of very high quality, and a firm in Irvine, CA has a bronze version slightly less detailed than the original. By 1926....there was a "radimeter" on the instrument panel and a motometer was redundant. ... Here is the bronze version:

Thank you A.J.!

Source: digitalcollections u. of alberta Location: Calgary, AB

Lady Lougheed, daughter, and chauffeur at their residence in Calgary, Alberta, probably 1910-1915. digitalcollections U. of Alberta photo. Sir James Lougheed owned a 1910 and ordered a 1912 Peerless, but not sure what this car is.

493. Though the carmaker sold $300,000,000-worth of motorcars between 1900 and 1932, the ones from the first 15 years were so expensive practically no one could afford one. Case in point the 1912 Model 48-Six Limousine a Sir James Lougheed ordered at a cost of $6,000 CDN. Miraculously, the artifact has survived, in part due to less than 200 km of use, and long-time museum ownership. You can see it next time you pop over to the Western Development Museum, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Frank_W, I'm in a truck stop on a break...........but yes, Streetside Classics says it's sold. Do not know who bought it, unfortunately. I know someone in Denmark with a similar Peerless F/S, though! ( a 1929/30 Model 6-61 Sedan ) Jeff

Yay, Terry, you two made a good find! I think it may be one of the harder Peerless Girls to find, too. 1903/1904 Peerless cars are rare, but not impossible to find. There were 3 1903's at the 58th Annual Pebble Beach Concours; and a 1904 was for sale at the Amelia Island auction in 2019. For some reason there are lots of 1910s....and the surviving cars 1900 through 1932 are only as rare as Model Js.

492. This fellow has had no one challenge his assertion...or even make comment...so it must be true.

490. 1912 Caddy -- I'm at a busy time of year or would have replied sooner. In 2 days I have to drive to Williston, ND. It's hard to answer briefly, but when Ralph Cartonio was around, I told him about this car and he wanted me to drive to S. CA, trailer it to ME so he could use the rad shell for another Peerless with the wrong one on. He paid a trucker to haul the 1925 Six-72 those 3,000 miles about 2011. It was an odd turquoise blue at the time....1 owner 50 years a few miles N. of San Diego. I don't know if he switched them or not, but the other one sold(may have been a '28 Mod. 8-69 Roadster). That was after he bought a rad shell on Ebay for several hundred dollars that was the wrong size. He said each model had a slightly different size going up the price ladder. In '24, 2 models, but Cadillac-design*; '25, 3(2 like yours); '26, 3 models; '27, 5 models; '28, 4 models; '29, totally different design for 4 models. If accurate, a little confusing. * see first 2 posts on page for pictures of 5 of them

........1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Torpedo roadster. Posted by martc on autoshite today........ This would check all the boxes for a lot of people, if it still existed. All it needed was a G.I. stationed in Bavaria who had the moxie to bring it to the States after the war.