Guest Johnboy650 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Greetings, I am putting together a list of classic American orphan car makers and could use help with any that I may have left off. Any help would be great! DeSoto - ChryslerEagle - ChryslerImperial - ChryslerPlymouth - ChryslerEdsel - FordMercury - FordMarquette - GMGeo - GMLa Salle - GMSaturn - GMOakland - GMOldsmobile - GMHummer - GMViking - GMPontiac - GMCheckerDeLoreanNashHudsonStudebakerPierce ArrowApolloHispano SuizaMGAustin-HealeyRoverTriumphKaiserWillysHenry JCrosley MotorsTuckerPackardRambler ReoFranklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rp1967 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 LittleDuesenbergStutz And about 1000 more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) Maxwell and Chalmers, forerunner of Chrysler. Erskine and Rockne from Studebaker. Jeffrey,forerunner of Nash. Nash Rambler (twice). Essex and Terraplane from Hudson. Willys and its companions Overland, Willys Knight and Falcon Knight. Survived by the Jeep, a Willys product. Marmon and Roosevelt, REO and Wolverine. Edited June 9, 2015 by Rusty_OToole (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old car fan Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Cleveland,Rollin,Grant Mitchell,Auburn,Cord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rp1967 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) PilotPathfinderRevereCrow-ElkhartSimplexEMFFlandersStanleyWhiteBakerCaseLosierWhippetHaynes Apperson Edited June 9, 2015 by Rp1967 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry W Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) Wills Sainte Claire, Dort. Edited June 10, 2015 by Larry W (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlCapone Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I am sure if you google it you will get an exhaustive list. What will your list be used for ? Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Cole Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 MG, Austin-Healy, Rover, Triumph are/were British car makers... So do you mean cars no longer sold in the US? And add Cole to your list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Cole Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 BTW, as Wayne said, Wikipedia has an article/list on Defunct US Automakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ply33 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I've seen lists that were into the thousands. The Standard Catalog of American cars 1805-1942 starts with Abbot-Akin and ends 1582 pages later with the ZIP car. Nearly all the manufacturers/makes in there with the exception of a few like Ford, Chrysler, etc. are no longer being produced. My copy of The Gasoline Age (copyright 1937) has a list of more than 1,500 makes which were produced in the US at various times in the past. That list starts with the A.B.C. Motor Vehicle Company of St. Louis and ends, like the Standard Catalog, with the ZIP produced in Davenport, Iowa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) Woodill WoodfireStanley SteamerAmphicar Edited June 10, 2015 by nick8086 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hupp36 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Hupmobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Roth Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 ThomasStoddard-DaytonStaffordAmerican UnderslungMonroeDaniels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dei Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 OVERLAND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzBob Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Dorris Motor Car Co. St. Louis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Davis Bricklin Rickenbacker Whippet Bantam Citicar King Midget Ruxton DuPont De Vaux Continental Beacon LaFayette Stout Peerless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Nobody has said Paige? Also Jewett, and the company that took them over was Graham. Did anyone mention Metz? Its GM counterpart Cartercar, Carters former business partners in the Jackson automobile and its kissin' cousin the Fuller from Michigan. There was a different Fuller automobile from Nebraska. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambarn Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Alabama'sPrestonPremocarGreat Southern Automobile Corp and of course....The 1948 Keller (being perused by Jay Leno as he ignores a 2.9 million dollar (according to my 15 year old ) Ferrari Enzo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 (edited) Woodill WoodfireStanley SteamerAmphicar Amphicar was not American. Neither was Hispano-Suiza Edited June 10, 2015 by CarlLaFong (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Davis Bricklin Rickenbacker Whippet Bantam Citicar King Midget Ruxton DuPont De Vaux Continental Beacon LaFayette Stout Peerless Bricklin was Canadian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Mercer.Pungs Finch.Brewster. Locomobile.I have a book on CT built cars not noted above but most are very obscure. As others have said this list already exists but still fun to weigh in anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 How many had to be built to count ? More than one ?Springfield Rolls, Studillac, Fordillac, Bocar, Manta,and howzcome no one mentioned the most famous of all: Jordan ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Oh yeah, the Delorian was built in Ireland, so not really an American car, either, though the company was incorporated in Detroit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) Amphicar was not American. Neither was Hispano-Suiza Edited June 11, 2015 by nick8086 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layden B Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I am hopeful that by now you have figured out that a definition of "classic" is in order.Next and bigger problem will be getting a consensus on the definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layden B Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 dei,It is hard to keep a good name down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Isn't that a Jeep ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 http://forums.aaca.org/topic/228702-orphan-car-series/ post a picture of a orphan car.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Pullman, Hanover, Sphinx, Hart Kraft, Atlas, Bell, Kline, all built in York, PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Continental Motors in the '30s and Continental Division of Ford in the '50s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) TuckerFitchAllardMuntz (love the reference Earl "madman"Muntz...)Meyers Manx Oh no Laydon, please don't suggest he go down the what's a classic, or classic vs. Full Classic path here. Either you get it or you don't and it's been rehashed a thousand times!! :-) Edited June 11, 2015 by Steve_Mack_CT (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layden B Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Steve,You are right. The definition of what was "American" was unsurmountable, "classic" would be beyond comprehension. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlCapone Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I've seen lists that were into the thousands. The Standard Catalog of American cars 1805-1942 starts with Abbot-Akin and ends 1582 pages later with the ZIP car. Nearly all the manufacturers/makes in there with the exception of a few like Ford, Chrysler, etc. are no longer being produced. My copy of The Gasoline Age (copyright 1937) has a list of more than 1,500 makes which were produced in the US at various times in the past. That list starts with the A.B.C. Motor Vehicle Company of St. Louis and ends, like the Standard Catalog, with the ZIP produced in Davenport, Iowa.You can't do better than this and this way the post won't go On for several years. Can you please tell us what the list will be used for ?Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) TuckerFitchAllardMuntz (love the reference Earl "madman"Muntz...)Meyers ManxOh no Laydon, please don't suggest he go down the what's a classic, or classic vs. Full Classic path here. Either you get it or you don't and it's been rehashed a thousand times!! :-) Prior to 1776, we were a British colony but Sydney Allard build his cars in Jolly Olde a bit later than that Edited June 11, 2015 by CarlLaFong (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 John I stand corrected. Neat cars and always assumed US made, maybe due to powe plants used... I suppose your avatar is laughing at me this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest austincar6 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Chandler EMF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John348 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 PontiacKaiser/Frazier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Johnboy650 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Thank you for everyone's contribution. I am building a classic orphan car forum and want to include a list of orphan car clubs.I will use your suggestions to build a list of clubs for these makes. I will post a link to the site when it's up and ready in July! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Cole Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Always willing to admit when I'm wrong. There was a Triumph made in the US: The Triumph Motor Company of Chicago, IL, 1906-1909, It was called "The Triumph". Here are a few obscure, Pre-War (some pre-WWI) makers, which we may overlook, from A to Z:AdamsBarbarinoCalifornianDarlingEconomyFamousGallowayHackettIdealJacksonKline KarLexingtonMeteorNorwalkOttokar (Ottocar)ParryQueenRapidSuccessTravelerUnion (by several companies)VeracityWaco (Seattle, WA not Texas)Xenia (as in Ohio)York (as in PA)Zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Moon.Zimmer. (snicker...) I knew someone who worked for them and they are a car company not a customizer according to him. Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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