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Solid wheels on the Phelps farm


RickPaulos

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Rick, Is the picture that you have from an old photo that you have? Do you know the location? Or best yet, do you own that Moon?

 

It certainly looks like a Moon. It appears to have the radiator shell of a Moon. the step plates tells us that it is a Sport model. The wheel rings and the step plates seems to make it a 1923 6-58 Sport Touring. Pictured below is one that is located at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, MO. 
 

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No, no and no. The photo is from a large and recently discovered collection from a chance acquaintance of my wife. He shared a few hundred with her (and me being somewhat tech savvy) and I've posted just car photos here (that I could not identify myself) to seek help in identifying them. 

 

The photos were mostly taken by the aquaintence's grandfather (I think) from about 1900 to the 1930s although I did spot a later 1960s car fender in one. Most of the photos are of farm life in eastern Iowa. Horse-powered everything. And a saw mill operation. I think he photographed every car that came to visit the farm.There were couple of the Mississippi river boat, The Capitol, that they took a cruise on in the 1930s.

 

 

 

 

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Are we really sure the mystery car is a Moon??

 

The radiator shape does not look like the squared edge Rolls-Royce inspired shape that came in around 1919.  It looks more like the shape that Studebaker used in the early 1920s on the Special Six - although I don't think it is a Studebaker.

 

I wonder if it might be a circa 1921-23 ish Paige.

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