What the heck is it? and that one, and the other?

[roadkillontheweb]

Found these old photos and wondered what the cars were?

The mud covered car has three shots but the rest are singles.

All shots are from Iowa historical archives

[keiser31]

#2=Hupmobile 1910?

#3=Renault

#4=Packard

#5=Packard

#6=Packard

#7=Pierce Arrow

#10=Cadillac

[roadkillontheweb]

#2=Hupmobile 1910?

#3=Renault

#4=Packard

#5=Packard

#6=Packard

#7=Pierce Arrow

#10=Cadillac

I should have noticed the headlights on the Pierce arrow. They are a dead giveaway! It looks like the Packard was staging a cross country run?

How about a couple more?

[Clincher]

The car in image #9 in the first set appears to be an Oakland, 1913 or thereabouts.

[nzcarnerd]

I don't think #3 is a Renault, it is an electric of some sort. Yes #9 is an Oakland 6-60 of 1913 or '14.

[nzcarnerd]

#1 is unusual in having the radiator well foreward but from looking at the sump, the engine is set well back and is probably not as big as the long hood would suggest.

[Guest Commodore]

The car in image #9 in the first set appears to be an Oakland, 1913 or thereabouts.

It is a 1913 Oakland. See Ad.

[nzcarnerd]

I think the cross-country Packard is 1915 3-38, the last model before the Twin Six. It has the smaller six of 415 cubic inches.

[nzcarnerd]

Of the second group, the first picture looks like a 1914 Buick model 24 roadster, except the Buick had vertical hood louvres - maybe it is an optical illusion that these look sloped. The third pic might be a big Buick C-55 tourer from 1915. The second one dates from around 1916-17 - maybe a Hudson??

[nzcarnerd]

The Cadillac in pic #10 of the first group is a 1915 Type 51 - the first V8.

[nzcarnerd]

#3 in the first group might be a very early Studebaker electric - the front hood is like their 1902 models.

[keiser31]

I don't think #3 is a Renault, it is an electric of some sort. Yes #9 is an Oakland 6-60 of 1913 or '14.

Yep...I was mistaken. THIS is the Renault that I was thinking about.

[Richard Lichtfel]

The cross country Packard---I was reading a while back about the Lincoln Hiway and the President of Packard, being involved in the Lincoln Hiway Association, drove a brand new Packard Twin Six to California to promote the Packard and the Lincoln Hiway. Could this be that car?

[roadkillontheweb]

The cross country Packard---I was reading a while back about the Lincoln Hiway and the President of Packard, being involved in the Lincoln Hiway Association, drove a brand new Packard Twin Six to California to promote the Packard and the Lincoln Hiway. Could this be that car?

There is also a lot of Lincoln highway images in the collection, so it may be very possible.

[roadkillontheweb]

#1 is unusual in having the radiator well foreward but from looking at the sump, the engine is set well back and is probably not as big as the long hood would suggest.

I was wondering if #1 might be a steamer? The hood is huge and I do not see any signs of early Photoshop to extend it.

[roadkillontheweb]

The cross country Packard---I was reading a while back about the Lincoln Hiway and the President of Packard, being involved in the Lincoln Hiway Association, drove a brand new Packard Twin Six to California to promote the Packard and the Lincoln Hiway. Could this be that car?

I forwarded the images to a Lincoln Highway historian and he confirmed that it is indeed Henry Joy president of Packard trailblazing the route for the Lincoln Highway.

[nzcarnerd]

And yes it is a first series Twin Six.

[Hupp36]

#1 car My first guess is a 1907-08 Oldsmobile, 2nd guess is an Apperson1908

[Guest Commodore]

On the second group of photos, the second photo is not a Hudson. The doors are wrong and Hudsons had ten spoke wheels not twelve. Maybe a 1916 - 1917 Willys-Knight.

[Guest De Soto Frank]

I was hoping that #9 was an early Chevrolet...

[Guest De Soto Frank]

I was wondering if #1 might be a steamer? The hood is huge and I do not see any signs of early Photoshop to extend it.

I think it's a gasser... looks like a trembler coil box on the firewall, and a muffler & exhaust pipe just inside the running board,

I was thinking Ford Model K, but the hood shape (bulges out down towards the bottom) doesn't seem quite right... it has quite a long hood...

[Guest cben09]

Check the electric against early Columbia models,,note front springs and gear drive,,,Ben