Grandpa

Has an industrial look.

Water heater anode rod assembly?

1960s Chevrolet Chevy II?

1925 Overland pictured.

Could be 1941 Oldsmobile.

Could be a 1932 Buick.

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The sedan looks like a circa 1925 Stutz.

The R-R is a USA made car in Springfield, MA. The early Ghosts produced in Springfield were right hand drive.

Circa 1926 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Piccadilly Roadster. The R-R Ghost cars did not have front brakes.

1929 Cadillac, 5 passenger sedan, Fleetwood style no. 3830-S.

On a related subject - I noticed variations in the manner that the wire cable for the starter switch is routed on restored cars. The following pictures show what I believe is the correct cable routing. Note that the factory photo does not show any insulation on the choke heater tubing. The factory photo is of very earlier production and the insulation may have been added later. The brass carburetor ID tag is normally bent down over the edge of the top cover of the carburetor.

Hi Valk. The metering rod shaft problem, that I mentioned above, can occur on a WCD 533S carburetor, as the top cover (over the float bowls) is the same as the postwar Special carburetor.

I have problems with my 1941 Buick Roadmaster’s front Carter carburetor. A few days ago I started the car and the engine began racing uncontrollably and backfiring. I removed the front carburetor for inspection. The uncontrollable engine racing was caused by the metering rod shaft, which is part of the mechanism that lifts the metering rods, had jammed in the full throttle position. After cleaning and careful inspection, the problem was that the carburetor’s top cover had slowly distorted over time, such that the two holes the metering rod shaft passes through, were no longer in the good alignment. This misalignment produced excessive fiction for the free rotation of the shaft. I also checked the part numbers on the metering rods and metering rod jets and discovered that the carburetor’s die-cast upper section was from a 1948-49 Buick Special Carter WCD 663 which was attached to the cast iron base from a 1941-42 compound carburetion large series engine (so the throttle linkage would match-up). The correct 60, 70, & 90 Buick’s carburetor is a Carter 1-1/16 inch (this size is shown next to the venturies) WCD 490S (early) or WCD 533S. The carburetor model can be confirmed by checking the metering rods and the metering rod jets. The part numbers are stamped on the parts, as follows: Std. metering rod: 75-473 Lean metering rod: 75-490 Metering rod jet: 120-121S I am now rebuilding a Carter WCD 533S for my Roadmaster.

Hudson Terraplane. The convertible is a fairly rare model.

I guess that Packard was using-up excess stock of the older design of the parking lights under the headlights for the 1918 - 1919 models. The styling department of Packard must have wanted the cowl lights, despite the unnecessary duplication of the parking lights mounted as part of the headlights.

The 1918 - 1919 Packard was the last year for the parking lights located under the headlights.

I believe that the car shown on the right side of the dealership shop photo in a new Commonwealth. All three cars in the shop have the same license plate number. In 1920, the California dealer plates have a single letter on the left side followed by a dash and then numbers. Non-dealer plates use only numbers. An automobile dealer would be issued license plates with the same number; the dealer would request the number of plates needed. In later years, dealer license plates would only be used on the rear of the car.

The other automobile sold by White-Humphries Company was the Commonwealth. There is a Commonwealth touring car shown in the dealer's shop area.

Another picture of a Standard 8 touring car.

Pictured is a Standard 8 touring car; could be the same car in the Camp Curry picture (above). Perhaps Herbert F. Humphries is driving with his wife and grandma in the back seat. Note that in the image of the sedan in a park (prior post, above) that the driver is about the right age for Herbert Humphries wife and there is an older woman in the back seat.

Pictured is a vintage picture of a Standard 8 sedan; could be the same car shown in the Baldwin & Howell ad.

Pictured is the home of Herbert Fowler Humphries (B: August 1892) located in Westwood Park, 683 Miramar Ave., San Francisco, CA. Note that the house is little changed from the vintage Baldwin & Howell ad (above) posted by Mike6024. The 1917 Westwood Park development was a segregated neighborhood for white families only. This 2,000 sq. ft. house is estimated to be worth about $1,700,000 (USD) today.

The pictured is the same building that housed the dealership circa 1920. Note that in the second vintage picture of the showroom, the outside corner of the building has an angled design.

The pictures, below, likely identify the dealership and the unknown sedan in the showroom as a Standard Eight (made in Butler, Pennsylvania). The trade magazine article is from April 1920.