1928 Buick tire cover

[michealbernal]

Is any one aware of anybody reproducing the white canvas spare  tire covers with the "Buick" logo on them?

[Mark Shaw]

Nope...

 

[dibarlaw]

I have tried many local upholstery shops. No one was interested. "We only work on classic cars not antiques". Meaning Cameros Mustangs etc...  Very frustrating when one knows back in the late 1950s to early 1960s many cars restored at the time had tire covers custom made. I do have a cover that was made for a 1927 model 24 roadster with double spares in the 1950s. They gave me one of the covers and I had a vinyl logo made.  Note the adjustable snaps at the bottom. I know last year at Hershey I spoke with a person showing a beautiful 1926 Chrysler that had an embroidered Chrysler logo on the spare tire cover. He did give me the contact info for the person who made the cover and I will hopefully search it out for you.

1923-36 coupe

1924-45

1923-54 Sport Roadster.

1926 Standard currently for sale in Hanover PA.

 My favorite from Buster Keaton's 1923 "Sherlock Jr" showing a new 1924-45 Buick touring car with FOUR WHEEL BRAKES. Needed to set up the next gag.

 

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[michealbernal]

Dibarlaw, Thank you for your time/effort.  I would like get something like the one on the 1926 Standard you sent the photo of.   I don't think I will do the Buster Keaton one   Although  it is very interesting I doubt than 99 out of 100 people today would understand or appreciate its significance.  Thanks again, Mike

[Terry Wiegand]

I know that you were wondering about the light colored canvass material for the spare tire cover - several variations are shown here.  Just for the halibut, here is what I did with the spare on our 1920 Buick Coupe.  I wanted something that was going to promote the dealer in our area at the time the car would have been new.  After doing some digging in old city directories and phone books, the earliest mention of a Buick Dealership in our town is around 1907.  We are in farm country and things generally are a little bit slower in reaching us out in Doo Dah.  I had the fellow who put the new top on our 1916 Touring use some of the left over material for this cover.  The material is called Haartz Stayfast.  I had the lettering embroidered before it was sewn up.  For some reason the color in the lettering doesn't show the true Orange like it really is - but you get the idea.  Hope this might give you some ideas about what can be done.

 

Terry Wiegand

Out in Doo Dah

[michealbernal]

Terry Wiegand, what a great idea.  My partners uncle owned the Buick dealership in Gilroy Calif. in the 1930s and 1940s.  Gilroy is a small city about 10 miles away and my partner was raised there and she has root extending way back there.  I will go to the Gilroy City Museum and check out the old city directories to determine  what the exact name of the dealership was and see if they had a unique logo and have a cover made up with that on it. Thank you