Fund Raiser: The Larz Anderson Auto Museum Needs Your Help

[Guest T-Head]

Here are a few photos of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum 1907 Fiat that is headed to

Pebble Beach for the Concours d'Elegance.

The Museum is a non-profit and we are helping them prepare this incredible car for the trip.

The car needs new tires before it goes and our readers have generously pitched in for the cost of

one tire and The Old Motor has bought one. The Museum needs donations to help with the cost

of the other three tires.

You can read the earlier post here on the forum, and stop by The Old Motor were you can learn

all the details about how you can help, and see many more photos of the car. You can also visit

The Larz Anderson Auto Museum here.

Please help them if you can, as the exposure they will receive will help them with further fund raising.

The Larz Anderson Auto Museum is home to "America’s oldest car collection." For over 75 years the

Larz Anderson Auto Museum has been supporting the old car community through a variety of educational

programs, exhibits, and lectures.

Today the Museum's primary goal is its continued support of the old car community through

educational outreach and the preservation of our permanent collection of early automobiles.

The Larz Anderson Auto Museum hopes to serve as a resource for your automotive and cultural interests.

[JFranklin]

I see three good tires in the photo. Was this car going to be driven to the show?

[sambarn]

J Frankiln, you can tell those are old pics... the tags are expired!! On a more serious note- The pic from the museum shows a different color car and it does have old but inflated tires. Did this get restored from this condition to something else?? How much driving is involved in a Concours show?

[Guest T-Head]

I see three good tires in the photo. Was this car going to be driven to the show?

All of the tires and tubes on the car are very old and badly age cracked. We have taken two of them off of the rims so far and it is a good thing we did as they have big chunks of rust inside along with the broken off pieces of a wire brush bristles.

The very real concern is flat tires or a blow out in the transporter on trip out and back which is 7000 miles round trip. If a tire or tires goes flat in transport the tie-down straps will loosen up and the car will rock back and forth was possible resulting damage to it and other cars.

It is the only one of its kind, unrestored and quite special which is the reason for the effort. The photo below shows some of what was inside of one tire with a quarter added for size reference. Someone well meaning, 50-60 years ago used a wire brush to try to remove the rust from the inside of the rims but it ended up getting inside the tires when the bristles broke off.

[A. Ballard 35R]

That certainly is one amazing car and very deserving of a trip to Pebble Beach along with all the support (monetary and otherwise) necessay to get it there safely. This is really a tremendous effort by the Larz Anderson people including yourself.

Is it correct to say that the car is a 1 owner in that it was originally bought by Larz Anderson and has not been retitled? How many were made and is this the only survivor?

I hope many people send donations to help fund such a worthwhile project. This car is probably so rare and valuable that the Fiat people in Turin, Italy would like to have it in their muesum.

Let's make sure that it is well preserved so that we can all enjoy seeing it at the Larz Anderson Mueseum.

[Guest T-Head]

That certainly is one amazing car and very deserving of a trip to Pebble Beach along with all the support (monetary and otherwise) necessary to get it there safely. This is really a tremendous effort by the Larz Anderson people including yourself.

Is it correct to say that the car is a 1 owner in that it was originally bought by Larz Anderson and has not been retitled? How many were made and is this the only survivor?

I hope many people send donations to help fund such a worthwhile project. This car is probably so rare and valuable that the Fiat people in Turin, Italy would like to have it in their museum.

Let's make sure that it is well preserved so that we can all enjoy seeing it at the Larz Anderson Museum.

Thanks so much for your interest in this incredibly rare car and the Larz Anderson Museums efforts to get it to Pebble Beach. It is one of only 116 that were built between the years of 1907-1908.

It is a very large car that is on a 139" w.b. with double-chain drive and features a 674 c.i. six cylinder engine that can be seen below.

It has spent its whole life in at the Larz Anderson carriage house and now is its chance after 105 years to spend a day in the sun and help the future efforts of the Larz Anderson.

The full details on their efforts and many more photos of the car can be seen on The Old Motor.

[Guest T-Head]

The new tires arrived late last week for the 1907 Fiat and we were able to get two of them

on the car over the weekend. We will post an update soon.

The Larz Anderson Museum needs donations to help pay for the cost of the tires and now

has their easy and secure credit card payment system set up to make it easy to help out.

Please remember that every gift counts no matter how small!

You can also mail a check to the museum at the address below if that is

more convenient for you. In you correspondence just state that it is for the 1907 FIAT

Pebble Beach Campaign

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

FIAT Pebble Beach Campaign

15 Newton St

Brookline, MA 02445

Phone: (617) 522-6547

Fax: (617) 524-0170

Thanks to you in advance for helping them.

David Greenlees

Edited June 6, 2012 by T-Head (see edit history)