1939 Pierce Arrow found!

[trimacar]

Well, I can't hold back any longer, I was finally able to acquire what no one thought existed, a 1939 Pierce Arrow....and it even came with the prototype sales catalog for that year. 

 

It's a very unusual body style, the Pierce engineers tried to combine a sedan with the attributes of the Travelodge, so that it's like a big van with living quarters.  In the catalog it's called a "Travelus", which combines the words Travel and Bus......pictures to follow, but here's the catalog cover.....

[Bleach]

I thought this was going to be about an actual car.

Edited April 1, 2018 by Bleach (see edit history)

[trimacar]

I just thought April 1st would be a good day to announce this.......

[Joe in Canada]

And I found the long lost Bentley 'Blue Train' today.

[edinmass]

Mr Trim.......I would like to purchase that 1939 V-16 Pierce-Asshoe for for $137,236.17 us. Cash only.....of course. I assume it’s the factory correct purple and red two tone exterior with the yellow goat skinned upholstery with the pink feather trim? If not the price will need to be adjusted. 

[Brass is Best]

4 minutes ago, edinmass said:

Mr Trim.......I would like to purchase that 1939 V-16 Pierce-Asshoe for for $137,236.17 us. Cash only.....of course. I assume it’s the factory correct purple and red two tone exterior with the yellow goat skinned upholstery with the pink feather trim? If not the price will need to be adjusted. 

 

Correct me if wrong but isn't the fur supposed to be on the goat skin upholstery and the floors covered in ceramic tile?

[edinmass]

2 minutes ago, Brass is Best said:

 

Correct me if wrong but isn't the fur supposed to be on the goat skin upholstery and the floors covered in ceramic tile?

 

Only  if the latrine has an upholstered  toilet seat do you get the tiles on the floor in a Pierce-Asshoe Travelodge. It’s the delux model only of course. 

[trimacar]

1 hour ago, edinmass said:

Mr Trim.......I would like to purchase that 1939 V-16 Pierce-Asshoe for for $137,236.17 us. Cash only.....of course. I assume it’s the factory correct purple and red two tone exterior with the yellow goat skinned upholstery with the pink feather trim? If not the price will need to be adjusted. 

Ah, so you know the car, as you know so many cars!

 

The V-16 purrs like a lion, and, oh, the front of the car...it's the grill of my dreams.....

 

Cash is acceptable, small unmarked bills, please.........

[Steve_Mack_CT]

Does it have bluetooth with the computer system David?

[vermontboy]

Just for the record my "like" is for the early morning April Fool's day joke. Today is my birthday (really) so I have learned after all these decades to take any early morning postings as such .......and there have been many over the years. Yours is one of the best .......

[trimacar]

1 hour ago, Steve_Mack_CT said:

Does it have bluetooth with the computer system David?

No, it has Sabertooth with a Commuter system.....the hyperflux inductor and the modulating incarbamater work, though....

[jeff_a]

As you know, the Pierce-Arrow tools & dyes were sold to the honorable Japanese in 1939, so you're lucky to have one of the last cars to come out before the Japanese versions did. They used the dyes for those dreadful Purple and Red versions edinmass was talking about(Mae West may have had one).

 

Please right to me at:

Col. Cragmont Brown

Tru-Facts*Manufactured Theories*Reviews-For-A-Dollar*

Bogus Basin*ID

 

Here's old what's-his-face in his Zis convertible(cant find a picture of old Tojo in his '39 Pierce-Yajirushi...with the factory in Nagasaki...it's real hard to find Tru-facts that  they even existed):

 

Picture of the old butcher himself.

Photo source:  Mr. Juha Kaita posted this 10-year-old photo on the Peerless Forum when we were discussing Peerlesses in Finland. It's not a Peerless, but looks kind of Packard-ish for some reason. It's an ex-dictator's car which was in Mr. Rannila's collection in northern Finland...before some hideously-wealthy Russians bought it...and  brought it back to the Kremlin. My sources in the OSS tell me the dude in the back is saying: "I think we'll invade Finland this winter with a whole division. What could possibly go wrong with that?".

Edited April 1, 2018 by jeff_a (see edit history)

[unimogjohn]

David, I found the pic of your new motorhome.   When do you go to pick it up?  What a cool ride.

 

 

[60FlatTop]

You skinned our goat?

[CHuDWah]

You better hope the inverted framistan is working.  Pierce-Arrow used them only on the 1939 Travelus.  They're impossible to find and the vehicle is only good for scrap without it. 

[alsancle]

8 hours ago, Joe in Canada said:

And I found the long lost Bentley 'Blue Train' today.

 

I know there are 1/2 dozen copies but is the original really lost?   I think it would bring a crazy price at auction,  5, 6, million or more.

[keithb7]

Interesting enough, I spotted two Pierce Arrows today at our local car club event.

Rear one was a Limo with cab separation glass. Forward cabriolet had a golf bag compartment. RR behind passenger door.

 

 

[trimacar]

13 hours ago, unimogjohn said:

David, I found the pic of your new motorhome.   When do you go to pick it up?  What a cool ride.

 

 

Wow, that's quite a find.....lots of stuff going on there!

[trimacar]

10 hours ago, keithb7 said:

Interesting enough, I spotted two Pierce Arrows today at our local car club event.

Rear one was a Limo with cab separation glass. Forward cabriolet had a golf bag compartment. RR behind passenger door.

 

 

Nice....looks like maybe a 1930 Model A or B limo and a late 1920's roadster, unusual wire wheels on the roadster and I like the no side mounts on it.....

[Brass is Best]

16 hours ago, 60FlatTop said:

You skinned our goat?

 

That's Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.