(#23) What is it? Identify that car!We recently received a...

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(#23) What is it? Identify that car!

We recently received a massive collection of prewar car photographs. We are equipped to identify cars in photographs. Due to the volume of unidentified images, we decided to try something new….and something that is hopefully fun for you!

Do you think you have what it takes to ID the vehicle(s) in the image? If so, please give us the make and model year and, whenever possible, the reasons why you believe your identification is correct. Some vehicles will be easier to identify than others, but we will share them all with you regardless. After we receive some guesses, we will check our available resources to see how you did. Good luck!

This one is a double feature - Can you identify both? Also note the running board riders!

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[nzcarnerd]

The car with its hood down is a Ford T from, I think, around 1914. The other car I am sure is an Overland but specifically which model I have not yet worked out. It is 1915 or 1916 and not later. The 1917 cars did not have the pressings in the valances between the body and running boards, and they went to more curved top, rather than flat top fenders. The lower price 1916 Model 75 has the six hubs bolts like this car but only uses five rims bolts. The bigger Model 83B, and its predecessor the 1915 Model 81T along with its big brother the 1915 Model 80,  has six rim bolts, like the car here, but has multiple hub bolts. To me the smaller bolts number signify a full floating rear axle. Maybe Overland made a mid year change in 1916? One for the Overland experts.

[Stude17]

The 1916 Overland light four looks pretty close to me. 

 

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/overland/model-4/1916/385970

[nzcarnerd]

4 hours ago, Stude17 said:

The 1916 Overland light four looks pretty close to me. 

 

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/overland/model-4/1916/385970

 

 

Looks like it.