Pre-War & Post-War Collections

[jeff_a]

Well, it's been a week since I started this thread...and I felt obliged to write down what fell into the suggestion bin for Cars That a Prewar & a Postwar American Car Collection Shouldn't Be Without:

A. PreWar

1. 1893 Haynes

2. 1895 Duryea

3. 1898 Winton

4. electric Hansom cab

5. Baker electric

6. 1900 Locomobile

7. White steam

8. any Apperson

9. any Franklin

10. 1903 Ford Model A

11. 1903 Cadillac

12. Pope-Toledo

13. Buick (1 each 1904-42)

14. 1904 Oldsmobile

15. 1905 Peerless Model 9

16. any Thomas Flyer

17. any Packard

18. any Peerless

19. any Pierce-Arrow

20. any Marmon

21. any Metz

22. Winton (pre-1910)

23. Stutz Bearcat

24. Mercer T-head

25. 1914 Peerless Model 60-Six

26. 1914 Ford Model T

27. any Alco

28. 1915 Chevrolet 490

29. any Simplex

30. INDY racer (every decade 1909-1940)

31. 1922 Essex

32. any Rickenbacker

33. any Lincoln(1921-42)

34. sleeve-valve engine car(Willys-Knight, Stearns-Knight, etc.)

35. Duesenberg INDY car

36. Springfield Rolls-Royce

37. Nash

38. 1927 LaSalle Coupe

39. 1929 Chevrolet International

40. 1929 Cord L29

41. 1929-30 Duesenberg Model J

42. 1930 Cadillac V-16

43. Miller INDY car

44. 1928-31 Ford Model A

45. Studebaker President

46. Stutz DV-32

47. 1931-1933-ish Continental

48. 1931-33 Marmon V-16

49. 1932 Peerless V-16 prototype

50. Duesenberg Model SJ

51. large Studebaker

52. REO Royale

53. 1932 Ford V-8

54. Lincoln Model K

55. 1932-34 Hupmobile

56. 1933 Hupmobile Silver Anniversary Six

57. 1934 Chrysler Airflow

58. Packard Dietrich

59. 1935 Packard 120

60. 851/852 Auburn Speedster

61. 1936-37 Cord Model 810/812

62. 1938 Oldsmobile

63. Graham Hollywood

64. Packard Darrin

B. PostWar

1. 1944 Willys Jeep

2. 1946 Willys CJ-2

3. 1946-76 Buick(1 each)

4. 1947 Studebaker

5. 1947 Tucker

6. 1948 Cadillac

7.1949 Oldsmobile

8. 1949 Crosley Hotshot

9. 1949 Cadillac Coupe DeVille

10. step-down Hudsons

11. 1950 Mercury

12. GM Dream Cars

13. any Chevrolet Corvette

14. 1953-54 Chevrolet Corvette

15. 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air

16. any Chrysler 300 convertible

17. 1955-57 Ford T-Bird

18. 1956 Packard

19. 1957 Chevrolet

20. any 1957-58 MoPar 392

21. Rambler w/ fold-down seat

22. GM Wildcat II Dream Car

23. 1959 Cadillac

24. 1960 Chevrolet Corvair

25. 1963-65 Buick Riviera

26. 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang

27. 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado

28. 1964 Pontiac GTO

29. 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona

30. 1969 Pontiac GTO "The Judge"

31. 1970 Ford Pinto

32. 1970 Chevrolet Vega

33. 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass

34. 1984 Plymouth Voyager

35. 1984 Jeep Cherokee

36. 1986 Ford Taurus

37. 1991 Ford Explorer

38. GM EV-1

39. Chevrolet Volt

Edited November 22, 2011 by jeff_a (see edit history)

[Dave Henderson]

No Cord? No Duesenberg? No Tucker? No way.

[TexRiv_63]

Your postwar list is real light.

[jeff_a]

Dave and Don,

This is all that people have sent in. It took me awhile to enter in all the suggestions, so it may have looked like I left out some, until now. I'll include the models I thought of, too, which will add 10 more PostWar cars.

Maybe the fewer number of PostWar models suggested shows that there is more agreement on what they are instead of less interest. Also, the number of carmakers to choose from is very small compared to PreWar.

----Jeff

Edited November 22, 2011 by jeff_a (see edit history)

[jeff_a]

The Green Dragon,

I looked up that 1905 Peerless at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, and believe it is one of those Model 9 (24 H.P.) cars, rather than the Model 12 (60 H.P.).

Edited November 21, 2011 by jeff_a (see edit history)

[Guest De Soto Frank]

I would like to suggest:

Owen-Magnetic ( with Owen-Entz electromagnetic drive )

Packard Twin-Six ( 1916-22)

Locomobile 48

Dodge Brothers ( early 4-cyl / 12-volt)

Premier with the Electromagnetic gearshift

REO with the Self-shifter transmission (1933-35)

Doble steamer ( if you could get your hands on one)

Stanley Steamers ( coffin-nose and later "condensing" model )

Mc Farlan

Porter

1929-30 Hupp

Standard Steel Car

1924 Chrysler B-70

Hudson Super-Six ( Teens- Twenties)

[Richard Lichtfel]

Jeff,

You are right, they have it listed wrong. It is not a T head 4 but the overhead valve 4 used in the Green Dragon race car and only available in limited quantity. Some were striped down and raced as the Blue Streak race cars.