George Smolinski Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 On 12/3/2019 at 8:26 AM, Walt G said: Here is a Federal truck for all the people who like commercial vehicles , photo dates from 1940. Nice truck. Don't think you could have that sign on it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 10:18 PM, Tph479 said: Just a $75 dollar used car in 1936 on its way out west. What's the body style? I've never seen a Packard quite like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, trimacar said: What's the body style? I've never seen a Packard quite like that.... Looks like a 1932 Packard Victoria coupe....not sure maybe a 902 Model. This is the 900 Model.... Edited December 5, 2019 by keiser31 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Wow, thanks, 50 years of collecting and I've never seen one....love it.... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunsmoke Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 jeff_a, the Peach side of my family came to Nova Scotia, Canada from the Eastern USA shortly after the War of Independence, about 1790-1800, as British Empire Loyalists. While I've traced their descendants since here in Canada, I have not researched their ancestors before 1800. I do understand it is a somewhat common British last name. Thanks for asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tph479 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Another period picture and a current picture of the same car. It is a 1932 Packard 900 coupe sedan. Four owners from new. This body style was only used on the 1932 light eight model, and 1933 1001 model. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 One more for you to contemplate. I am not sure exactly when the photo was taken - most likely in the early 1940s? written on the rear of the photo is "reconditioned antique" and the location is Bayside, New York . Car is identified as a 1920 Stevens Duryea . I have never seen this car and would remember if I did and have been aware of and wanted to know what car was what ( year and make) since the 1950s. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_a Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 4 hours ago, Gunsmoke said: jeff_a, the Peach side of my family came to Nova Scotia, Canada from the Eastern USA shortly after the War of Independence, about 1790-1800, as British Empire Loyalists. While I've traced their descendants since here in Canada, I have not researched their ancestors before 1800. I do understand it is a somewhat common British last name. Thanks for asking. Thanks....the one I'm familiar with, with his dad, were in CA and OK as far back as 1904....so probably no connection. Extremely uncommon name in the States, though. In 60 years, I never heard that surname on anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Walt These are wonderful images we're enjoying greatly. I hope you don't mind, but to improve the visible details, I use a shareware available for free from Irfanview.com. In addition to cropping away the white edges, it has both automatic and controllable functions to darken or lighten the image and convert it to grayscale. I recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 11 hours ago, Walt G said: One more for you to contemplate. I am not sure exactly when the photo was taken - most likely in the early 1940s? written on the rear of the photo is "reconditioned antique" and the location is Bayside, New York . Car is identified as a 1920 Stevens Duryea . I have never seen this car and would remember if I did and have been aware of and wanted to know what car was what ( year and make) since the 1950s. I'm not as well versed in nickel-era cars as most, but that looks like a Locomobile, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 I appreciate the tips to improve what I post, I am scanning the photos at 600dpi with an Epson scanner; Epson is the highest quality I bought and was and is used by the School of Visual Arts in NY City to reproduce artwork, images etc. What you suggest may be a better way to go but I am taking the time to do this between researching then writing major stories for a commercial car periodical, plus a lot of other things in life so right now , what you see is what you get, as it is all I have time for. I do not have the time to fine tune every image I post even though I would like to. The photo of the Stevens - Duryea is a snapshot not an 8 x 10 photo and very gray in tone from the day when it was printed. Original size of photo is 4 1/2 x 3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 Matt, the car has a emblem on the top front of the radiator shell - Locomobile did not do that, also the Locomobile shell I think was deeper ( I am working on a 1916-18 Locomobile radiator and shell now , polishing it and it is a big unit!) The hubcaps seem a bit smaller then what Locomobile used as well and I don't recall Locomobile using cowl lights. Just making all aware of what I studied before I believed what was written on the back of the photo to identify it!😯 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hund Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 This is the 1937 Lyon Conklin outside sales force. My Father was second from the right. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Walt G said: I appreciate the tips to improve what I post, I am scanning the photos at 600dpi with an Epson scanner; Epson is the highest quality I bought and was and is used by the School of Visual Arts in NY City to reproduce artwork, images etc. What you suggest may be a better way to go but I am taking the time to do this between researching then writing major stories for a commercial car periodical, plus a lot of other things in life so right now , what you see is what you get, as it is all I have time for. I do not have the time to fine tune every image I post even though I would like to. The photo of the Stevens - Duryea is a snapshot not an 8 x 10 photo and very gray in tone from the day when it was printed. Original size of photo is 4 1/2 x 3. Thanks for all your diligent work to bring these images to us to enjoy, it has to be a time-consuming undertaking. Periodically, I'll subject an image to the improvement software and post it if a clearer image can be produced. It surprises me the original Stevens-Duryea photo is that small given how nicely it sharpened and cleaned up. One of the function lessens the high contrast found in many old images which with a bit of manipulation reveals details otherwise washed out. I'll do what I can to help. These looks at a period fast receding into the past are absolute gold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 5:05 PM, keiser31 said: My other grandmother and her 1929 or so LaSalle convertible coupe... Backtrack here: This is a 1928 Cadillac (aka not a LaSalle). 28's have cowl parking lamps. Also, notice the splash apron trim - not LaSalle. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Thanks for the lesson, John. ALWAYS willing to learn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass is Best Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 5:44 PM, keiser31 said: My great aunt Dorothy on her dad's big car... Looks like a 1911 Cadillac Model 30. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass is Best Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 7:20 PM, JV Puleo said: My Great Uncle, Sam Pendleton. Uncle Sam arrived in France about a week before the Armistice as a member of the 310th Motor Transport Corp. Because he was one of the last to arrive, he was assigned to the Army of Occupation and didn't get home until 1921. He always liked cars and was one of the few members of the family that owned them. I've no idea what this one is. 1916 or 1917 Oldsmobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) 58L - I REALLY enjoy sharing with all of you what I have collected over the past 50+ years. The cars, photos, literature, automobila is our common bond , it just makes us feel good and lets us savor the past that we weren't around to experience first hand. We all are little kids at holiday time when we view our own collection and are able to see something that someone else has saved that we hadn't seen before. Some people don't want to or can't share what they have but there are some of us that can. The focus is on all of us, not just ourselves. This was a lesson I learned very early in life from my parents and from very close friends like Austin Clark. Fortunately we have a organization like AACA to act as a venue for all of us to do this. Edited December 5, 2019 by Walt G typo (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV Puleo Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 45 minutes ago, Brass is Best said: 1916 or 1917 Oldsmobile. That makes good sense. I doubt my uncle could have afforded a new car. This must have been just after he returned from France so late 1921 early 1922. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dei Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Dad and his Hupp. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Man Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 My Moms family about 1938, my mother was not born yet, she was the youngest of 6. The 1933 Graham stayed in the family till 1952? Grandpa sold her when she was old enough to vote (21 back then?)...got her back in the family in 2001. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 A cousin to the Mack truck, Maccar made in Scranton PA. Found the photo at an antique shop. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 22 hours ago, keiser31 said: Thanks for the lesson, John. ALWAYS willing to learn. Me too ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted December 6, 2019 Author Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) One last photograph. This was taken in France in 1934, I do not know the location. The car on the post is a Ford. The rear of the car in the distance that you see with the oversized trunk for the trunk rack was owned by the fellow that took the photo. That car is a 1934 Lincoln convertible sedan,owner was author John J. Ide an American who was an automotive journalist and frequent contributor to the magazine Motor Life & Motor Print. I have several photos of the cars he owned - more of the Lincoln, a late 1930s Bentley, and a 1920s Hispano Suiza limousine that he bought in France on one of his numerous trips there - that car had a Kellner body. Ide would go over to attend the annual Paris salon /motor show. I know some of you who may view this may think - wow, what a way to advertise the AACA annual Eastern Fall meet at Hershey , or perhaps to have it in front of the new headquarters, but perhaps I should stop comments right now!🙃 Edited December 6, 2019 by Walt G typo (see edit history) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithb7 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) Sure looks like an old mining town I went thru in 2010. Austin Nevada. Anyone from there or been there, agree? Edited December 6, 2019 by keithb7 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithb7 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) 11 minutes ago, keithb7 said: Sure looks like an old mining town I went thru in 2010. Austin Nevada. Anyone from there or been there, agree? Holy cow. I just zoomed in. Far left of photo, sign reads “Austin Cafe”. By chance I saw this image online earlier this year. I liked it. It reminded me of Austin. As mentioned, I drove thru there in about 2010. Stopped for lunch in a really cool old original wild west type saloon. I remember the story the locals told me about the huge antique wood bar that they shipped in from Africa. Way back in the day...On a boat that went down around Argentina. The saloon is Cool spot. Be sure to check it out. Time seems to stand still at that saloon. That may be the saloon in the pic above. Late 30’s by the looks of the cars in the photo. Still there today! Edited December 6, 2019 by keithb7 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHuDWah Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) On 12/3/2019 at 9:26 AM, Walt G said: My sincere thanks to all who have contributed to this post and also to all of you who are looking at it , I really appreciate and am amazed at the genuine enthusiasm and great comments ! It shows what all of you enjoy but perhaps don't get a chance to see enough of. SHARING THE WEALTH - of our collections and interest in marvelous old machinery. I hope to add at least one or maybe two period images from my archives every week or ten days or so. Here is a Federal truck for all the people who like commercial vehicles , photo dates from 1940. On 12/3/2019 at 9:29 AM, Dosmo said: Wow - for me, that Federal Panel truck takes the cake. Outstanding! According to the livery, it takes the bread. 😁 Maybe not a PC brand of cargo but a cool truck. Edited December 7, 2019 by CHuDWah (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHuDWah Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) On 12/4/2019 at 10:06 AM, TerryB said: The photo of the car, the bill of sale and accessories purchased. From a collection given to me by a late friend. On 12/4/2019 at 10:30 AM, Walt G said: Terry This is great , I wonder if the building that that Chevrolet dealership was located in still exists in essentially the same format/look it had then. Walt Mr Shue traded a Ford for a CHEVY??!! I assume the Dunlop tire/tube was the spare but what's a "Weed" bumper? Brand name? Or given the location of the picture, maybe it really was for bumping weeds. 🤣 Anyway, I didn't find any pix of the dealership, then or now. But Longenecker was quite the entrepreneur. Here he is in the Marion-Handley he drove from the factory in Jackson MI - apparently he was a distributor for the make as well as several others. And here he is with his Scripps-Booth "Road-O-Plane". It was built as a non-flying parade float but some folks, thinking it was real, contacted him wanting to buy or build one. 🤣 More info on J F - https://lititzrecord.com/news/john-longenecker-road-o-plane/ Edited December 7, 2019 by CHuDWah (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 5 hours ago, CHuDWah said: but what's a "Weed" bumper? Brand name? Or given the location of the picture, maybe it really was for bumping weeds. 🤣 Yes, a brand name. Weed is best known today (well, a few years back?) for Weed Tire Chains. Back in the 1920s, they manufactured not only tire chains, but quite an assortment of automotive accessories. These were sold both after-market in automotive stores and directly to automobile manufacturers for either optional or standard equipment. Accessories included but were not limited to shock absorbers and bumpers. Although it does not have the Weed name on it, research some years back, I found that the bumpers on my '27 Paige were Weed bumpers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 More from Lititz PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 I keep saying "one last" image, well... This image is not the best but it was the only thing I could get. It is a small photo that I found tacked to a wall in a local locksmith/key place and although I couldn't borrow the photo to scan the business owner did make me a photo copy of it which is what you see here. I mentioned to him what make and model it was and he had never heard of it. It is the only period photo of a Willys 77 I have managed to locate in many years of looking at a lot of period photos. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Mr Shue liked his Chevy products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Thank you Ben, always nice to learn something new about people that were in the hobby years ago. The Brindle Crane Simplex lived two towns over in New Cannan, Ct. for years, with a new restoration it is now in the Jay Leno garage. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 That Crane was a common sight in Western Mass where I lived, as he had a good friend in the same town as I grew up in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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