Old Car Picture I need Identified

[Guest Clark Zellmer]

I need help identifying two cars. This is the second.  Family photo likely taken near Arcadia Iowa. Can anyone help with the year, make, and model?

 

Thanks

Edited August 19, 2017 by Clark Zellmer (see edit history)

[keiser31]

Looks to be about a 1922 Buick.

Edited August 19, 2017 by keiser31 (see edit history)

[TerryB]

I like how the picture of a restored car from the Internet never seem to match how the cars "back in the day" really looked.  In this case, the whitewall tires really seem out of place.

 

Terry

[keiser31]

Here you go....

[gwells]

You call those whitewalls? LOL...

[Curti]

18 hours ago, TerryB said:

I like how the picture of a restored car from the Internet never seem to match how the cars "back in the day" really looked.  In this case, the whitewall tires really seem out of place.

 

Terry

I agree !  Over restoration is easier than doing the research.

[nzcarnerd]

8 hours ago, Curti said:

I agree !  Over restoration is easier than doing the research.

I suppose you could argue, that with the early cars they didn't have 'black' tyres until sometime around WW1.

[Spinneyhill]

7 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:

I suppose you could argue, that with the early cars they didn't have 'black' tyres until sometime around WW1.

In 1904 S C Mote, the chief chemist of the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works in Silverton, England, discovered that the carbon black used as a pigment in ink could strengthen rubber.

 

The Diamond Rubber Company obtained the rights to use Mote’s process and in 1912 they successfully blended carbon black with rubber to produce tires with significantly improved strength, wear resistance and durability.

 

Hence all tires were white until at least 1912.

 

But while walls on that 1922 Buick look ridiculous.

[gwells]

Although I believe early tires were not a bright white, like modern reproduction tires, but more of a light gray.

[Curti]

On 8/20/2017 at 3:42 PM, nzcarnerd said:

I suppose you could argue, that with the early cars they didn't have 'black' tyres until sometime around WW1.

Yes, I agree.  !

[Hudsy Wudsy]

 

I'll bet this fellow was an ideal candidate for a "Fat Man" steering wheel. There are a few interesting types of said wheels pictured at Google Images.