1935Packard
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Fantastic. Enjoy.
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I love it. I really like the quirkiness of Nashes in that era, and to see one unmolested and maintained like that is just fantastic.
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6 hours ago, Gunsmoke said:
Edinmass said "So a rough estimate is that about 7% of all CCCA Full Classics are here in FL." With 6.5% of the countries population, they have only their fair share. It raises the question "Is there a state with a significantly higher share than their population would warrant?" I'm guessing states with a lot of wealthy folks would tend to have high numbers, California, Texas, New York, but their large population numbers might lower their relative share. Since so many CCCA Full Classics surviving are soft tops, I'm also guessing warmer climates might be a factor. Someone with access to the CCCA roster should be able to give us an answer shortly!
That's a really interesting question. I don't know if the CCCA roster captures this, but I would guess that the number of CCCA cars in each state is skewed by a few large collections, too. If some (very lucky) person has 50 CCCA cars and moves from one state to another, they could change the share for their state.
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Love it! Beautiful car. Perfect year. Convertible, sidemounts, just right. Enjoy.
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Thanks for the photos. Most of us here, myself included, will lament so many late and modified cars. Still, good stuff in there.
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Kinda cool to see what's left after decades of the elements have take their toll.
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The ideal path of ownership: Buy it as a #1, drive it until it's a #3-.
Sure, you'll lose money when you sell it. But on the ideal path, you don't care.
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Whatever is easy to start, reliable to drive, and in my garage.
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I love this unrestored 1938 cabriolet, another by Chapron that is similar to the one Walt G shows above.
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On 7/16/2022 at 6:25 AM, edinmass said:
Tell your wife she doesn't need that new car or kitchen remodel. It's much more urgent you buy a French custom bodied car...........😛
I will be sure to tell her, le temps presse! But she will just laugh at my ability to use Google Translate.
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13 hours ago, 1937hd45 said:
Same car on a better day? May be a Sport Roadster, they look nice restored. Cheap entry level car IMO. Bob
Interesting! Whole ad from 6 years ago seems to be here (with the same suggested price):
https://classicmoto.rs/auto/buick-44-roadster-1923-ub5YhL.html
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16 hours ago, 58L-Y8 said:
This Curbside Classics article has an overview of Delahaye history:
Fantastic article! Thanks for posting, I learned a lot.
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14 minutes ago, Grimy said:
A serious *seller* would unbury it, air the tires, roll it outside, and try to dust off/wash/clean it up.
"Honey, it's time to sell that old Buick buried in the garage."
But I don't want to.
"Honey, just post an ad online and I'll stop nagging you."
If you insist...
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Just want to add that I commend Tscot10 for being interested in a cool old truck like that, and for asking the question to the experts here BEFORE making an offer to buy it. I agree with the others that this isn't the truck to get; it's too far gone. But you're asking the right set of questions to the right set of people, and that's a really good thing. (Nothing pushes people to leave the old car hobby like a bad first experience!)
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On 7/13/2022 at 2:05 PM, jeff_a said:
Hi John. It's not easy finding reliable information on 155-year old car companies. Your Peerless is a circa 1929 Model Six-61. Only Peerless model with the horizontal louvers on the bonnet. I think Stutz, Blackhawk and Roosevelt cars had those in the same era, too. I'm a Peerless Motor Car Club member in spirit, though the Club is in a rather inactive phase with the death of longtime President and Newsletter Editor Richard Lichtfeld and earlier organizer David Baird. I'm the Historian..........and fortunately for you I've been working on the registry* of Peerlesses since 2007.
Lo, I looked at KPAIE and see that there are 55 1929s, 6 1930s, and 1 1931 Peerless 6-61 listed. Far more 1929 and 1927 Peerlesses are known to have survived than any other years. Many years are just represented by 1 or 2 examples. Peerless' 3 models in the 6-60 family were:(remember, every jurisdiction has a different notion of what year a car is when registered[year built? year sold? year brought to the registration office?])
- 1927 and 1928 6-60/199 cu. in./62 h.p./(1st Series)A400,501-A403,549 (2nd Series) B600,001-B603,991
- 1929 6-61/215 cu. in./63 h.p. @3600 rpm/Car Ser. # C610,501-C615,450
- 1930 6-61A/215 cu. in./C615,451-C619,507/really, the '29 6-61, but built after Sept. 1st, 1929, because of the model year break/some 6-61A cars have side cowl vents, fender running lights, and/or 10-spoke wheels
* The Known Peerless Automobiles In Existence list. KPAIE has 371 vehicles, with your 1929 added two days ago. An article in an investment magazine states that there are only 35 examples of Peerless motor cars remaining. I believe there are that many in Europe. This roster/registry/inventory/studbook** probably has some cars listed more than once, and will until serial numbers are provided for all of them. Some are just leads, some are well documented, and most are in between somewhere, but all have been photographed or written about since 1968. Are there more Peerless cars and trucks surviving than I put on this list? Of course. Maybe 20. Maybe 200.** A French collector refers to it as that.
I found this really interesting, and loved the fact that a forum member knew so much. Thanks for posting it.
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6 hours ago, alsancle said:
There are two or three of these bodies. RM sold one at Amelia about 5 years ago. I was lusting after that one too.
Beautiful. The coachbuilder wasn't too worried about whether drivers behind you would see your taillights, I gather.
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One more question to add to the mix: How do you learn more about Delahayes? I know of only one English-language book that covers them in detail, the Mullin Museum's, "French Curves - Delahaye, Delage, & Talbot-Lago," but it's $150 to buy. Is anything else good? There are videos on youtube, but I don't see much in terms of books, etc.
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51 minutes ago, Rusty_OToole said:
When I was a kid 50 or 60 years ago you could walk down the street in any residential neighborhood on a Saturday morning and see a guy painting his fence, another guy working on his boat, someone else giving his car a tuneup, planting a tree, and so on. These days it seems young people have no skills and are not interested in learning. If they can't buy it or hire it done they do without. They know what they do for a living, just well enough to get by, and how to play video games and that's it. I guess that is the world we live in now but I can't help feeling something is missing in society.
50 or 60 years ago, the guys who were working on a boat or giving a car a tune up on the weekend probably had wives who were inside taking care of the children, cleaning the house, out doing the shopping, etc. These days, it's more likely that both the husband and wife are working full time jobs; that they are both sharing the child care; both doing the shopping; etc. It's not that "the guys" have no interest in learning new skills like repairing a car, it seems to me; it's that they're too busy doing other necessary things to have the luxury to spend time on other things.
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Interior differences between 1931 Cadillac 355 vs. 1931 LaSalle 345 are interesting, too. The Cadillac had more modern gauges, etc.
1st, LaSalle:
2nd, Cadillac:
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John, do you have Van Gelderen & Larson's book, "LaSalle: Cadillac's Companion Car"? I haven't looked at it in a while, but I vaguely recall it had some rough Cadillac vs. LaSalle comparisons.
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2 hours ago, BucketofBolts said:
So all LaSalle vehicles are now full classics? Even the less priced models from the late 1930s? I thought only some of the models were in this category, much like with Buick and the Model 80s and 90s from 1933.
Yes, all of them. New CCCA list here: "LaSalle – 1927-1940 All"
https://dealer-marketing-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/CCCA/CCCA%2BJanuary%2B1+V2.pdf
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On 7/12/2022 at 7:09 AM, John Bloom said:
This should be an interesting thread. There are conservative makes, and more flamboyant makes, and then there is Delahaye. Never to be accused of being shy.
I only know what I Google, but I think my favorites so far are the 135 cars by the likes of Pennock and Chapron. Really beautiful lines, but not so flamboyant that it no longer seems to be a functioning car. I love this design by Pennock:
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We don't have a CCCA forum thread on Delahayes, so I figured I would start one. I think a lot of CCCA-eligible Delahayes (Series 135, 145, 148, 165) are just stunning to look at. I'd be interested in any opinions of them as actual cars to drive. Are they reliable, are parts available in the U.S., etc? Certainly not performance cars, but curious how they drive. Also interested in views of the Delahaye market. It seems that prices vary dramatically based on coachbuilder (as one would expect), but I don't know if there are rules of thumb about what the market looks for.
More broadly, just figured we need a Delahaye thread.
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Pebble Beach 2022
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And his shop is one of the best in the business. They rebuilt the engine on my Twelve back in 2010, still runs perfectly. I may have had to get a 2nd mortgage on the house to pay the bills, but they did a very good job.