Period images to relieve some of the stress

[John_Mereness]

1931 Lincoln Model K in A Fool's Advice, Movie, 1932 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Supposedly Judkins ?

 

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[John_Mereness]

1931 Lincoln Town Car by Million Guiet Paris 

[LCK81403]

1916 Pilliod

 

 

[LCK81403]

'14 Lewis had a interesting shape of the radiator.

 

[LCK81403]

1915 Pratt kind of resembles a Buick of the time period

 

 

[LCK81403]

The '12 Spoerer.  Not much "curb appeal" in a car name like that.

 

 

[LCK81403]

The 1911 Republic appears to have been an underslung.  There's something cool about the "low riders" of the early days.

 

 

[nzcarnerd]

A 1949 photo of an Auburn in NZ. 

 

 

[twin6]

3 hours ago, alsancle said:

 

I bought that picture,  but when he went to ship it to me he couldn't find it.

Here's two for free.  I think from the plate Mr. Weed lived in the greater Albany area.  (No, I wasn't the eBay vendor!)

[nzcarnerd]

Scanned many years ago from a book of local history photos. Probably the only 1937 Buick 80-C Roadmaster convertible phaeton imported to NZ. I think the photo was taken in Northland, in the 1950s - it looks as if the hydroplane might have a flat head Ford V8 in it. 

[nzcarnerd]

A late teens(?) photo from the town of Kaitaia in the far north of NZ.  1915 Buick I think.

 

 

[nzcarnerd]

A 1950 photo taken near Palmerston North in New Zealand. It highlights the post war shortage of new cars.

 

 

[Joe in Canada]

5 hours ago, John_Mereness said:

Jack Benny in his Maxwell???

[LCK81403]

This advertisement from 1916 for "The Lad's Car" is interesting.  The ad shows that the Niagara Motor Car Corporation, in Niagara Falls, New York built the vehicle.  It resembles a Franklin in the hood and is a one-place speedster.  Information is virtually non-existent about this vehicle.  A Wikipedia article about the Wilson Automobile Manufacturing Company says that company operated between 1903 and 1905, and sold their vehicle as the "Niagara".  Further, the 1904 Niagara runabout had a single-cylinder engine, could seat 2 or 4 passengers and sold for $850.  The company was purchased  by the La Salle-Niagara Company in 1905 and cars were built until 1906.  There is a 10-year gap between the end of production in 1906 of a Niagara car, and this 1916 offering of Niagara Lad's Car.  It is unclear from the ad if the Lad's Car is a pedal car or a motorize car.

[Joe in Canada]

5 hours ago, John_Mereness said:

That must be Jack Benny with Rochester at the wheel of his Maxwell.

[J.H.Boland]

4 minutes ago, Joe in Canada said:

Jack Benny in his Maxwell???

 

One of them.

[LCK81403]

'15 Flagler

 

 

[LCK81403]

'16 Lexington Minute Man

 

[nzcarnerd]

A compilation photo from 1936 highlighting the work of the NZ Automobile Association.

 

The thing that intrigued me about this photo is the Buick being unloaded from the ship. It is an Australian one with a Holden body - quite different to the Fisher bodied cars which were sold new in NZ. I have a Holden body '34 Buick which my grandparents bought in 1946. Unfortunately it is probably beyond economic restoration but maybe the next generation will do something with it. I believe there is at least one other Holden body '34 in NZ although I have not seen it. The car ebbing unloaded here may have just been visiting.

 

The other photo with our '34 Holden body was taken in Picton on a family holiday in 1960. That motel is still there. I am the eldest of the kids there. 

 

 

[LCK81403]

1908 Holsman highwheeler.  Highwheelers were popular and important in the days of rural dirt roads in the American midwest.  My grandfather had an International highwheeler back in the day, in Minnesota.  According to my father, a trip in the highwheeler to visit family 52 miles distant took an entire day.  His dad would stop about every 15 miles to check the amount of crankcase oil.  And, he said, his dad could cuss a blue streak under his breath because of the slick hard rubber "tires" working in the mud.

[LCK81403]

'15 Pullman

 

 

[Doozer]

31 minutes ago, twin6 said:

Here's two for free.  I think from the plate Mr. Weed lived in the greater Albany area.  (No, I wasn't the eBay vendor!)

Looks like Chuck McCann.?

[LCK81403]

Part of a 1914 Rauch and Lang advertisement.  The banner says they have built coaches for over sixty years.  That claim places their coach building experience back into the 1850s.

 

[LCK81403]

1913 De Tamble speedster.  Eye goggles and even a windshield might be recommended for speeding.

[LCK81403]

The 1916 Hackett.  The slanted four louvers of the hood's side is seen on other vehicles.  Was this an "assembled" car?

 

[34LaSalleClubSedan]

Pre WWII real photo's much better than magazine ad's I.M.O.

[wayne sheldon]

7 hours ago, John_Mereness said:

 

 

This is a wonderful shot of Hollywood filming a movie!

About forty years ago, I watched the 1931 classic film "City Lights" starring Charlie Chaplin in one of the last really great silent film classics. I am pretty sure I clearly remember this very scene in the movie. The movie is simply charming, and loaded with the pathos and subtle comedy for which Chaplin is so famous. I would highly recommend anyone with any interest in early films take the time to find it, and watch it!

 

[58L-Y8]

Much better than that fuzzy prior image.

[wayne sheldon]

5 hours ago, John_Mereness said:

This would be ineresting to see as a new car: The 1931 Barron Buick (Canada): Custom was built by Smith Body Works Ltd. in Toronto using the chassis of a 1931 McLaughlin-Buick

 

 

Thank you John M for posting this one! I have often commented that I am not all that pleased by the CCCA expanding their "acceptable classics" list. While SOME of the changes I think were good, and even necessary, including more and more "lesser" cars is not a good thing in the long run. When I was a member, way back when I was just getting into this hobby, their list included the "Smith Buick" as the ONLY Buick accepted as a full classic. I never ever saw a picture, or any details of the car! I take it that this must be the one and only? And that it must still exist? Regardless, I am pleased that I finally get to see a picture of it!

I know a lot of people have benefited by expansion of the "Classics" list, including a number of Buick owners. And I am NOT looking to start a discussion of the subject here, or at this time. But where does one draw that line? I am just glad to see some reason WHY that one Buick was admitted so many years ago.

Again John M, Thank You.

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[Matt Harwood]

2 hours ago, LCK81403 said:

1913 De Tamble speedster.  Eye goggles and even a windshield might be recommended for speeding.

 

That DeTamble today with "improvisations" by Dale Adams:

[Bob Jacobsen]

Here's a photo of the Pierce display at the 1932 San Francisco Auto Show (Reo in the background).

Does anyone have a photo of a Pierce display at a 1933 auto show?

[Colin Spong]

1938 Lincoln-Zephyr Convertible Coupe. Note on back...." Fete des Artistes du Tremblay, Mlle. Mistinguett, dans concours au concours d'elegance automobile, 16 June 1938" The location is Tremblay race course on the southwest outskirts of Paris.

"Mistinguett", born Jeanne Bourgeois (1875-1956) was an entertainer who appeared at the Folies Bergere and Moulin Rouge. With risque routines that captivated Paris , she was the highest paid female entertainer in the world in her time. She never married but had a long relationship with young Maurice Chevalier.